TRAI for making NIXI more effective

New Delhi, Apr 20 (UNI) The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today said the Government owned National Internet Exchange of India's (NIXI's) infrastructure has not been optimally utilised and pointed out several abberations in its working.

TRAI's has forwarded its recommendations to the Communications and IT Ministry along with several recommendations to make it more effective.

The Authority has observed that NIXI's infrastructure has not been utilised optimally as only 27 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) out of 135 operational ISPs have joined NIXI at four nodes.

Various reasons like high cost of leased line to connect to NIXI node, non availability of NIXI nodes at all state capitals, high cost to obtain Autonomous System (AS) number have been indicated for not joining the NIXI.

It is also observed at times that pipe size of ISPs connecting to NIXI is inadequate to cater to the expected internet traffic.

The main purpose of setting up of NIXI by DIT, Government of India in 2003 was to ensure that Internet traffic, originating and destined for India, should be routed within India.

Many a time ISPs connected at NIXI are neither announcing nor accepting all the routes.

Since data traffic flow is one way, hop by hop, routed by analysing the destination addresses based on the routes learnt, announcement and acceptance of all routes becomes crucial for effective exchange of the domestic Internet traffic.

Considering these issues impacting effectiveness of NIXI, the Authority has made the recommendations to Ministry of Communication and Information Technology suo-motu in accordance with section 11 (a) (iv) of TRAI Act 1997 for effective utilisation of NIXI.

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