______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT SIG: IX Date: Thursday 2 March 2006 Time: 4.00pm Presentation: NIXI update Presenter: Puneet Tiwari ______________________________________________________________________ CHE-HOO CHENG: The next speaker is Puneet from India. He will talk about NIXI. The speaker after this is Akito from Equinix. Please be ready. PUNEET TIWARI: This is the NIXI strategy between 2005 and 2010 - "The unstoppable convergence of technologies which enable the seamless delivery of information, communications and entertainment content is already under way in India, thanks to the rapid push by the India Government since 1999." There are four revolutions under way in India. There are 882 million people between the ages of 24 to 64 by 2020. The rural and semi-urban initiatives are under way such as the setup of 100,000 CSCs e-choupal by a company. There is very large potential working population of Indians. The open source Google plans for free OIs and applications and thin client PCs to lower cost of PC. It's a good opportunity. We need to converge. Thus, it is critically important to invest in a world-class NIXI infrastructure so that connectivity and content service providers can enable a seamless exchange of Internet content and data traffic, so that the India-based end-user can improve their experience of the Internet at a cost-effective price. Right now, all the NIXI are situated in the SDPI, the software technology part of India, and, according to information by the UNCTAD, governments should establish a competitive milieu for ISPs, particular attention should be paid to ISP domestic interconnection. This is the NIXI vision - NIXI is the neutral peering and security monitoring point for all ISPs and the Indian Government to ensure that Internet traffic originating and destined for India should be remaining in India. This is the main reason. And the mission is to develop and roll out world-class backend infrastructure for all Internet service providers in India which would deliver non-discriminatory, efficient, security-compliant and cost-effective quality of service. Yeah, NIXI values and culture - benchmarked to the world-class standards for providing services which honour public-private partnership spirit, transparency, non-competing, independent actions, inclusiveness and unity in diversity, equitable treatment, process, value and customer focus. NIXI, right now, have two projects. NIXI have been given a task to offer a .in domain name. NIXI has already registered 26,000 domain names and the other is like 66,000 domain names, the old figure, and NIXI has appointed 35 registrars so far and two registrars to look after the government sector and the body that is NIC and to resolve the dispute amongst all these companies, NIXI has appointed an arbitrator to resolve these issues. Just update on Internet Exchange. Internet Exchange - NIXI has got 51 connections for NIXI now. They are operating in the metros in Calcutta and Chennai and 45 major ISPs have joined. And Mumbai has joined and then next to Delhi is 100 MB and Chennai is third with 85 MB. This is the roadmap for NIXI. NIXI want to establish this by 2005. This is the roadmap (refers to slide). The present ISPI is also acting CEO of NIXI. OK, here's another benchmark. They are demanding that we upgrade PPI infrastructure so that we can give ISPs a world-class service. Right now, we have major ISPs like BSNL, VSNL, BHARTI, Reliance, Gail, and PGCIL and Railtel are all major ISPs as well. When Sanjay came became CEO of NIXI, he prepared a roadmap for NIXI of what he would like to do in NIXI. Even the suggestion is required - NIXI right now is a non-profit body set up under the Indian Companies Act, 1950 and there is a proposal that NIXI can become a practical body if everybody agrees. Thanks. Any questions? CHE-HOO CHENG: Any questions? BILL WOODCOCK: Can you give us a participant breakdown on the four sites? You said there's 51 participants for the four sites, can you say roughly how many at each site? PUNEET TIWARI: We have maximum ISPs in Mumbai around 18, 19. I would think every major ISP is already connected with - especially three NIXI nodes. Out of the four metros, three are the major ones, like Bombay, Mumbai, most of the major centres, and then Delhi and then Chennai. At Chennai, we have a cable station apart from Mumbai so that is why Chennai is catching up. For some time, we are expecting like, Chennai will have more traffic as more ISPs will come. BILL WOODCOCK: So 19 in Mumbai. Do you know offhand for Delhi and Chennai? PUNEET TIWARI: 19 in Mumbai and 18, 19 in Delhi and around 11 in Chennai. All the information is on the NIXI website, just nixi.in. You'll find all the information there on members, etc. Any questions? CHE-HOO CHENG: Any more questions? (None) If not, thank you, Puneet.