NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecom Operations (DTO) has commissioned two Internet nodes, one at Delhi and the other at Bangalore. This is part of the National Internet Backbone (NIB) project, which will provide an Internet infrastructure throughout the country. The project costing Rs 33.5 core consists of a total of 45 nodes located in important cities all over the country inter-connected through wide bandwidth for smooth flow of Internet traffic. The remaining 43 nodes of the NIB are planned to the commissioned by the end of next month this year.
The DTO has also decided to set up 375 Internet nodes with at least one each in all Secondary Switching Areas (SSAs). And 245 such nodes covering 215 SSAs have already been commissioned. The remaining nodes are likely to be commissioned progressively by December this year. SSA constitutes the basic field level executive unit of the DTO.
The DTO planned the NIB which is a broad-based access network meant to provide convenient and easy accessible points for DTO and the private Internet Service Providers (ISPs) so that they can connect their Point of Presence (POP). This will help in providing better Internet service to the subscribers.