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Feb022008
India’s Internet Security
Think about it - one clumsy ship can knockout most of our Internet connectivity. One ship, somewhere between Italy and Egypt can paralyse our BPO industry. Is this the kind of connectivity we should depend on?
Image: Telegeography.com (see a larger version here.)Â
I’m not a techie but from a security point of view, there is no way we can be ‘next global superpower’ if our Internet connectivity is dependent on vessel movement in the Mediterranean.
Thanks to Karmadude for the tip.
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| Balu |
001
6:04 pm
Interesting! I was surprised that there were no satellite linking happening! Isn’t it possible for internet linking to be made using satellites? or are physical cables the sole way to go?
chacko
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6:26 pm
Satallite link is more expensive but I think the solution is in having various connectivity options so that we are not overly dependent on one or a few in perticular.
| Balu |
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6:32 pm
expensive to install may be… but hw abt the long term expenses? any idea?
rohit
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10:01 pm
satellite communications can’t offer the bandwidth required… one fiber optic cable provide the bandwidth which can be given by all the satellites launched till date..
fact of life
2S
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9:01 am
I disagree.
For a developing nation (developing, atleast in terms of infrastructure) we are having a rather decent internet network. More importantly, it boils down to each individual firm’s implementation of their own.
Not that Bangalore didn’t have internet shortage, but I know a large investment bank whose office is located in Bangalore whose business was highly dependent on the Bangalore office. They have good contingency and business process continuity in place, so that if one link went down, they could establish another via Singapore or Tokyo or perhaps even Hong Kong.
Also, we can do very little to control the communication cables that are not in our land or water territory. What we can do is establish good, strong communications with other countries so that, at any given point of time, there is some form of internet connectivity available.
I know for a fact that Reliance links faced major outages and in all honesty it’s Reliance who has to blame for it. This wasn’t applicable to everyone though.
I’m perfectly happy with the kind of internet connectivity we have in this country, both as a techie and as a home user.
To address India’s internet security concerns, security is an on-going process and we face the same challenges in protecting our data as the US or Russia face. I know for a fact that Israel’s government has some of the best security systems in place, and that Israeli firms make excellent security software too, and a lot of it is being used by banks in India. What we really need to address are credit-card frauds which are very common here, and one step forward is 3D secure - but I’ll save this for a future post.
Thejesh GN
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5:06 pm
Agree with 2s.
| Balu |
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8:14 pm
aha! looks like my idea wasn’t far fetched after all - read this.
Japan lauched a satellite for broadband internet.. will India follow suit or SHOULD India follow suit?
| Balu |
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8:15 pm
“JAXA anticipates the satellite to offer Internet speeds up to 1.2 gigabytes per second while helping the thriving space agency to conduct around 100 different tests in space.”