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Experience life with 1000000000 bps
Former President Smt. Pratibha Devi Patil inaugurating the NKN Project on 9th April 2009
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5:40 AM
Overview of NKN
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NKN is a state-of-the-art multi-gigabit pan-India network for providing a unified high speed network backbone
for all knowledge related institutions in the country
► 9th April 2009: Hon’ble
President of India, Smt.
Pratibha Devisingh Patil
inaugurated NKN Project.
On this day the status
was:
► 16 PoPs
► 26 Backbone Links
► 57 Edge Links
Will connect Research
& Development,
educational, health,
and agricultural
institutes
Allocation of Rs100
Crore (USD $18.5
million) for
implementation of Pilot
phase of NKN
An idea from Office of
Principal Scientific
Advisor, Government of
India (GoI)
National Informatics
Centre (NIC)
designated as Project
Execution Agency
GoI approved budget
of Rs 5990 Crore (USD
$1.1 billion) for NKN in
March, 2010
Introduction
Key Highlights of NKN
► 5th March, 2011:
Hon’ble Minister for
communications and IT,
Shri Kapil Sibal and
Hon’ble Minister of State
for Communications and
IT, Shri Sachin Pilot
launched Logo and
Website of NKN
► 31 PoPs
► 76 Backbone Links
► 216 Edge Links
1500+ institutes to be
connected; connectivity
has been extended to
1001 institutes
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Introduction
Management Overview
End User
Connectivity
NKN
High Level Committee
Executive Committee
Technical Advisory Committee
Security Advisory Committee
Model Projects Evaluation Committee
Policy
Implementation
Department of Electronics & IT
National Informatics Centre
National Informatics Centre Services Inc.
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Multi- 10G Core
Connecting all
state capitals
NKN: Core Connectivity
Telecom Service Provider 1
Telecom Service Provider 2
Telecom Service Provider 3
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NKN
Educational
InstitutionsResearch Labs
CSIR/ICAR etc.
INTERNET
Connections to
Global Networks
(e.g. TEIN4)
EDUSAT
MPLS
Clouds
Broad Band
Clouds
National / State
Data Centers/ Networks
National
Internet
Exchange
Points (NIXI)
Cert-IN
NKN Connectivity
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National Knowledge Network
Key Services
NKN
NationalKnowledgeNetwork
Community
Special
Generic
Community
Special
*These services
may be through a
CUG as well
Generic
►Internet
►e-Mail
►e-Mail GW
►DNS - NKN
►DNS - Security
for NKN Users
NKN ►Web Hosting
►VoIP
►MCU based
Video Portal
►SMS GW
►Co-Location
(PaaS & SaaS)
►e-Mail List Software
(LISTSERV)
►Authentication
►Session Initiation
Protocol (SIP)
►Collaboration
Service
►Content Delivery
►International
Collaborations with
EU-India Grid
►VPN (L2)
►VPN (L3)
►VPN Service
►Multicast
Streaming
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Institutes Connected Status
Category wise 1015
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NKN SUPER CORE
DELHI
HYDERABAD
MUMBAI
BENGALURU
CHENNAI
KOLKATA GUWAHATI
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NKN Connecting TEIN4 Network
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EUROPE
DELHI
HYDERABAD
MUMBA
I
BANGALURU
CHENNAI
KOLKATA
GUWAHATI
MUMBAI -
INDIA
SINGAPORE
JAPAN
HONGKONG
BEIJINGCOPENHEGAN
MADRID
US
• Network Across 19 Countries
• 8000 Research & Academic
Organization Members
• 45 Million Users
• Direct Peering with GEANT EU
NKN Connecting TEIN4 Network
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NKN Setup at Edge location
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National Knowledge Network
Status of NKN Connectivity (As on May 20, 2013)
Particulars 2013-14
Super Core PoPs 07
Core PoPs 24
Total number of institutes to be allocated
under NKN
1500
No of NKN institutes allotted to TSPs for
connectivity (till date)
1350
No of Institutes Commissioned under NKN 1015
Total no of core links allotted 89
Total no of district links allotted 250 (Total 860 to be allocated)
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NKN
User
Nodes
NKN Progress Chart
NKN User Nodes Commissioned NKN User Nodes Provisioned
Global Science Research
Collaboration through
TIEN4, GEANT & European
Grid Initiative (EGI)
Virtual Classrooms,
Collab-CAD
ESRF Synchrotron Lab at
Grenoble, France, Material
Science, Bioscience, Brain Grid
etc.
High Energy Physics
experiment at Large Hadron
Collider, Climate Change
Modeling, OSDD
Model
Projects
Immersive
Classrooms
National Knowledge Network
Progress Chart
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► At the conclusion of the final
phase, NKN shall have presence in
more than 640+ districts of India with
connectivity to major research and
education institutions
► Core Points of Presence (PoP) : 31
► Backbone Links : 89
► Edge links : 1500
► District Links : 860
NKN: On conclusion of final phase
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National iNOC - Delhi
NKN PoP –Guwahati
NKN PoP -Bhopal
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Virtual Classrooms
• Virtual classroom is a replica of the local class room teaching where
in the students at remote locations will get the same feel and
experience as if they are in the same classroom .
• Teachers and students have full interactivity with each other
• Teachers will be able to use all conventional teaching tools and
continue to teach the way they does
• Students can ask questions and interact with the teachers as if they
are in the local classroom
• At IITs and other institutes over NKN.
• Total of 66 virtual classrooms are being created over NKN
• 43 Virtual Classrooms have been created at IITs and NIC
• 23 additional virtual classrooms at NITs, IISC, IISER etc
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Virtual Classrooms for IITs
S.no Name Of IIT No of VCR
1 IIT-Ropar 2
2 IIT-Hyderabad 3
3 IIT-Kharaghpur 3
4 IIT-Bhubaneswar 3
5 IIT-Guwahati 1
6 IIT-Indore 1
7 IIT Gandhinagar 3
8 IIT Bombay 3
9 IIT Roorkee 3
10 IIT Madras 3
11 IIT Kanpur 3
12 IIT Rajasthan 3
13 IIT Patna 3
14 IIT Delhi 3
15. IIT Mandi 1
TOTAL : 38
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Virtual Classrooms
WEB BASED VIDEO CONFERENCING PORTAL
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► NKN Users
► NKN has connected 1015 institutes under categories such as C-DAC, IITs, IIMs,
ISER, ICAR, Medical and Central/Deemed/State universities
► Currently 563000 users (approx) are benefitting from NKN connectivity
► International Usage
► Utilization for EU Grid
► CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project. India is a Tier II service provider at
VECC, Kolkata
► Astronomy database transfer (Caltech-IUCAA, Pune)
► Virtual Laboratory (Remote Physics Experiment at ESRF, Grenoble, France on
NKN)
NKN Usage
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The Trans-Eurasia Information
Network (TEIN) uses ICT
technologies to increase regional
cooperation with Asian countries and
to bridge digital divide of less
developed regions.
► It connects universities and research
institutions with high capacity Internet
network to increase exchange of
knowledge
► TEIN4 is the fourth generation of
TEIN network. NKN is currently
connected to TEIN4 a high capacity
internet research network across Asia
Pacific.
5:40 AM
Collaborations with other Networks (1/2)
Remote Physics Experiment at ESRF
(Experimental Synchrotron Research
Facility), Grenoble, France
► An experiment conducted accessing
the Synchrotron at Grenoble,
France from Homi Bhabha National
Institute (HBNI), Mumbai, on NKN,
for protein crystallography studies.
► NKN connects the HBNI to FIP
(French beam line for Investigation
of Protein), Grenoble, France
through 2.5 Gbps Trans Eurasia
Information Network (TEIN3) link to
GEANT network in Europe
Connectivity to TEIN4
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Collaborations with other Networks (2/2)
NKN collaboration with CERN
► NKN currently connects two Tier-2
centres namely VECC and TIFR.
► With a NKN POP in their vicinity,
they are instrumental in addressing
the growing demand of enhanced
bandwidth from different institutions
desirous of working on the LHC
project
NKN Collaboration with Garuda
► GARUDA is a Nation-wide Grid spread
over several cities of the country,
comprising of computational nodes, mass
storage, scientific instruments and
collaboration of science researchers, with
an aim to bring "Grid” networked
computing research, to facilitate
scientific, engineering solutions for socio-
economic development.
► The GARUDA computing and storage
resources are made available over high
speed National Knowledge Network
(NKN). Garuda's migration to NKN gives
ample opportunity to exploit Gigabit
speeds for scientific and engineering
applications being run on GARUDA.
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Model Projects under NKN - Virtual Medical Classroom
In the area of medical education, NKN launched a model project with AIIMS as the Principal
Investigator, to understand the ICT technology flavor that will match the pedagogy natural to
medical education while using the high speed and low latency offered by NKN.
Eight institutions joined AIIMS in this experiment and have come up with solutions after mutual
consultations and actual field trials. They now have a template as to what combination is natural
and acceptable to their community for skill transfer, knowledge transfer, and knowledge
repository creation.
It is interesting that they use high-end graphics coupled with animation
for “routine” skills (Blood and urine Sample, Blood Pressure monitoring, etc.) transfer and
direct video for classroom interaction, and a combination to share knowledge about surgical
skills that are cardiac oriented.
The USP of this project is, “Identification of appropriate match between ICT technology and Medical
Application” for finding a solution to knowledge dissemination at a time when faculty are in short supply
and rarest of the rare cases tend to be concentrated in certain parts of the country.
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Model Projects under NKN - Network enabled online Casting
Simulation System (e-Foundry)
In the area engineering education, there were several attempts in the past in creating and
sharing course material, significant one being NPTEL – National Program on Technology
Enhanced Learning. But the problem of continued knowledge accumulation by stakeholder
community (consisting of Professors, Students, and Practitioners) using ICT remained a
challenge hitherto in the absence of an infrastructure like NKN.
With IIT Bombay, a model project was initiated in Foundry Education. This is an area where the
community is small, spread out, and perhaps not that tech-savvy. Besides, the experimental
facilities are a challenge in Tier-2 and Tier-3 institutions.
To do it well, requires high bandwidth and low latency. At the same time, many beneficiary
institutions are connected through commodity networks using Internet as they are in private
sector.
USP of this project is establishment of a Web Based Portal that will use Computation (High Speed) and
Interaction for Simulation (Low Latency) to impart Foundry education along with actual experiments with
robotic instrumentation as well as simulation environment. In the process, knowledge generated by each
stakeholder is meta-tagged and stored for anyone to view as “orchestrated” information. This approach
ensures that database will naturally grow due to usage and user participation and retain diversity of source
of knowledge, as the simulator in web site is capable of solving real-life problems for foundry industry.
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Model Projects under NKN - Network Enabled Medical diagnosis
and Education in Skeletal Imaging using X-Rays
In the area on inter-disciplinary research, three organizations were brought together to
demonstrate the power of NKN in multi-institutional interaction. They are, NIC, CSIO, and AIIMS.
The basic idea is to use engineering design solutions to solve medical requirements. CollabCAD
platform - software capable of three dimensional structural simulation with all the engineering
nuances – was retargeted to solve a personalized dental imaging in 3-D.
While NIC took care of the ICT part, CSIO concentrated on the imaging part, and AIIMS
articulated the end-user requirements. It is in a stage where multiple 2-D images are used to
create s 3-D virtual reality.
USP of this project is that all three organizations are using the same image database on the same server for
online and real-time manipulation of images, while discussing and annotating on the same image. Such a
facility is not available even commercially, across the globe
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Model Projects under NKN - Indian Integration with Global Imaging
System via McGill Linkage, NBRC
In the area of Brain MRI medical imaging and integration of Indian medical science with global
medical science, with NBRC as the lead organization, I-Brain was established as a research
infrastructure layer over NKN.
All these institutions share their Brian MRI images online and in real-time with C-Brain of
Canada and G-Brain, which is global.
While the current team will focus on using the infra for Alzheimer related studies, ICMR is
planning to use it as a general purpose infra for several brain related research projects that are
multi-institutional.
USP of this project is establishment of ICT infrastructure by medical community for a high end use, that too
in a shareable form. While the establishment is successful, the share-ability is still under exploration.
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Model Projects under NKN - Global classroom of the Amrita
Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Using videoconferencing for imparting education is a well-known application. But scaling it to
be an Immersive Experience is a technology challenge even for a point-to-point interaction.
With Amrita University in collaboration with IIT Bombay, SUNY, Buffalo, and
MIT, Massachusetts, USA an immersive classroom that adapts itself to the mannerisms of
a “teacher” is being attempted. Initially, video stitching of output from two cameras is being
attempted. The idea is that, if one is addressing two sites simultaneously, it will appear as a
single classroom at the “teaching” end.
The solution requires use of a supercomputer for running the algorithms that decide
the “sync” between two camera eyes. This project challenges the reliability and availability
aspect of NKN significantly, as the high volume and high-speed computation is in real-time and
a failure will directly “hit” the classroom experience.
USP of this project is automatic aligning of “teacher behavior” and “pedagogy” with display structure at the
receiving end – hitherto unaddressed issue, even by advanced countries in the world. This is expected to
result in a paradigm shift in our perception of large-scale spread of quality education. This project is also
likely to create “niche” technologies in several areas.
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