Enterprise Networking
Computer World : February 1-15, 1996
Though access to the Internet has been possible for the last one decade, its advent in India through VSNL has really brought the availability of such services to the forefront.
Unfortunately, there are some fundamental problems with the way various networks in India are functioning. For one, none of the existing networks, such as VSNL’s net, ER-NET, NICNET, I-NET, etc., are connected to each other. As a result, no two networks can share a message without routing it through Internet nodes in the US. Ridiculous? Yes, indeed!
Osama Manzar talked to nine Internet experts on some of the burning topics of the day including:
When India will acquire a national backbone?
Whether DoT should change its policy on the Internet?
Whether VSNL’s monopoly should end?
Whether all networks needed to get connected to each other?
And whether Internet services should be opened to the private sector?
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