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All Indian ISPs Will Have To Connect Through NIXI: Report

The Department of Telecom is planning to make it mandatory for ISPs to connect to the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), reports The Hindu Business Line. What this essentially means is that data traffic within the country would not need to be routed through international gateways, since all ISPs will connect with each other through the exchange. The report mentions that an internal committee of the government has mooted the idea, however, it does not point towards a definite source. The report does cite a DoT official who said that the initiative will allow ISPs to reduce expenditure on bandwidth which will in-turn allow them to reduce internet usage charges, and also lead to an improvement in the quality of service. We've been hearing about this since a long time and NIXI was indeed set-up with the aim of acting as a neutral Internet exchange for peering ISPs among themselves, to route the domestic traffic within the country for better quality of service, reduced latency and reduced bandwidth charges for ISPs. However, we've not seen any major change in policy to move things forward. Also, as the Hindu report points out, the cost scenario is different today from what it was in 2003 when NIXI was setup. NIXI had also reportedly received the ‘in-principle’ nod from the Asia Pacific network information centre (APNIC), which is the regional internet registry for the Asia Pacific region to become India’s National Internet Registry. The report had informed that NIXI would provide IP address allocation services, and that the Indian…

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