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| National Internet Backbone
expected by year-end The high speed National Internet backbone is expected to be in place by the end of the year, said top Department of Telecommunications (DoT) officials. DoT has already announced its ambitious plans to set up a National backbone for Internet services, which will cover all parts of the country. "This backbone, to start with, will have a capacity of 8 Mbps and will go up to 155 Mbps by the year 2000. Besides, the backbone will have 6 nodes with international connectivity at 34 Mbps," said DoT officials. The backbone is proposed to be set up at an estimated cost of Rs 86 crore, which will be funded through internal accruals. The backbone will act as a transmission media to carry the Internet traffic of both government and private ISAPs to the nearest International Gateway. It will also act as a facilitator for ISP to ISP interconnection within the country besides facilitating roaming. "The backbone has also been proposed to have-a three tier structure. The first tier would consist of large stations with high capacity digital trunks with highest level of redundancy. Type B and C nodes shall be smaller nodes with lesser access requirements," official elaborated. In additional, DoT has also proposed to have Remote Access Server, to serve Internet dial up subscribers in 45 locations consisting of 14 type A nodes and 31 Type B nodes in the first phase for which he tenders have been floated. This Internet backbone is expected to serve about one million subscribers by the year 2000. Source : Express Computer |
Net
Suffers an e – mail viral attack A computer virus that spread quickly across the Internet on Friday afternoon shut down e – mail servers at some companies and overloaded others with infected e- mail, industry executives said. Some executives fear the virus, which is dubbed Melissa and which preys on Microsoft Corp's Word software, could tie up traffic on the Internet on Monday if it is unstopped. The virus enters a computer in an e – mail message labeled "Important message From", which also includes the apparent sender's name. Melissa replicates itself when a computer user opens the email and a Word based attatchment it contains. Once open and active, the virus sends infected e-mail to 50 new recipients it finds in the computer owners address book. Source : Economic times |
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| Intel
opens Rs 20-crore blue door to Indian Media In what is probably the largest ever advertising campaign for a single product in the history of the Indian IT industry, Intel has kicked off a Rs 20 crore (about $4.5 million) campaign for its latest microprocessor, the Pentium III. Intel has already announced an ad budget of $300 million for prooting P III worldwide. For perspective, take HLL's ad-spends for 1997-98: Rs 414 crore-for its massive product lineup. TV major Mirc that owns the Onida brand, spent Rs 17.5 crore the same year on its entire line of TVs and music systems (source: A&M). Intel's spend of Rs 20 crore, though, is on one single brand, the Pentium III. Source : Express Computer |
| DoT MTNL to set
rentals below ceilings fixed by telecom regulator, cut STD and ISD charges. Communications minister Jagmohan announced at a press conference today that the Department of Telecommunications and the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam would set their rentals and local call charges below the ceilings fixed by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India(TRAI). DoT has also agreed to reduce STD/ISD charges. Source : Economic times |
| Last Updated May 3, 1999 |
