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How India is Connected To The Internet I'll Show You
India's Internet Speed is 36,000 GB/S .
How Internet service provider get internet from? How does Internet reach India? Let us dive into the world of networking .
99% of the internet traffic relies on high quality fiber optic cables connecting various countries. Only a minuscule part of the traffic goes through satellites.
This Type Of cable networks are laid and maintained by various governments and giant companies. Such projects are usually undertaken by multiple companies due to the large cost of investment. There are three tiers which differentiates the size of the network held by a company.
1. the companies which have a global network connecting so much cables around the world that they don't need to pay anyone any fee to access any destination on the internet. They usually can access the network of other tier-1 companies without paying any fee. This network acts as the backbone of the internet.
2. These are companies which have a regional networks and are usually connected to one or more networks. They have to pay a fee to access the Other company's network.
3. These are the Internet Service Providers(ISPs) from whom we buy our broadband connections. They are the last tier, connecting the internet to the end users.
BSNL owns 1 landing station at Tuticorine connecting to Srilanka.
Sify Technologies owns 1 landing station at Mumbai
Reliance Globalcom owns 1 landing station at Mumbai.
Bharti Airtel owns 2 landings stations at Chennai and 1 at Mumbai.
Tata Communications owns 3 landing stations at Mumbai, Chennai and Cochin. They are the only Tier-1 company from India.
India is connected to the world at Mumbai, Cochin, Chennai and Tuticorine. All of our international internet traffic goes through these port cities. The place where the international cables connect to the land is called landing stations.
National Optical Fibre Network :
National Optical Fibre Network project started in 2011 to connect over 250,000 Grama Panchayaths via high speed fiber optic cable at a cost of Rs 20,000 crore. The plan was to use the existing optical fiber networks of RailTel, BSNL and powergrid to extend the network to more locations.
The aim is to bring a minimum of 100Mbps connectivity to each Grama Panchayath. As of 2015, only 40% of the planned network has been completed, the biggest hurdle is stated as 'right of way problem' which in simple words means people are not allowing to lay cable over their land.
