KERALA STATE WIDE AREA NETWORK

Evolution, Implementation and the Road Ahead

Genesis
   CDAC (Then ER&DC) conducts a seminar on E-Governance in December 2001 Officials from 40 Govt Depts/ organisations participated Focus on the technologies and trends in Networking and Data centre, in the context of needs of the state.

Recommendation
 

Kerala needs to have a Data Centre for E-Governance and a backbone network across the state Free bandwidth from the bandwidth providers as per ROW agreement to be made use of

WHY COMMON INFRASTRUCTURE?

Many departments have formulated plans for setting up independent communication networks, which is a costly proposition Common network infrastructure will save cost and time of individual departments Departments have to set up separate data centres for their E-Governance programmes Common data centre will save cost and time of individual departments - AC, DG, UPS, backup, mass storage, Precision AC,24 hour maintenance Free bandwidth offered by bandwidth providers to Government not utilised Common network aggregates the bandwidth from the bandwidth providers and make available to Govt departments Most of the Government websites hosted abroad in private party s names The websites can be hosted at the E-Governance center Other applications like online election results, entrance counseling etc

Vision
AGGREGATES BANDWIDTH AND PROVIDES CONNECTIVITY STATE INFO BACKBONE E-GOVERNANCE DATA CENTRE

SETS UP SERVERS IN SECURE ENVIRONMENT FOR HOSTING APPLICATIONS

E-GOVERNANCE ACCELERATOR PROGRAM E-GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES

Setting up of SII
Proposal for a State Information Infrastructure (SII) submitted for approval AGGREGATES BANDWIDTH AND and funding in 2002. PROVIDES CONNECTIVITY Data centre in Thiruvananthapuram Backbone Network linking TVPM, Kochi and Kozhikode Aggregate free bandwidth from providers UP SERVERS IN SETS SECURE ENVIRONMENT Three year management
FOR HOSING APPLICATIONS

EGovernance Data centre

E-GOVERNANCE INITIATIVES

SWAN in other states

Darjeeling Jalpaiguri Kornojhora Malda Balurgath

Coochbehar

Suri Behrumpur Krishnanagar Purulia Burdwan Bankura Chinsura Barasat Howrah CALCUTTA Alipur Midnapur
2MBPS Link from BSNL

Similar architecture in Kerala

Wynad

Idukki

MPLS backbone of SII 2 Mbps link to districts

State Information Backbone

KOZHIKODE

KOCHI

Data centre
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

State Information backbone

RELIANCE BHARTI BHARTI BSNL BSNL

TVM

RELIANCE

Kochi

RELIANCE

Kozhikode

Asianet
ACCESS NETWORK Leasedline, ISDN/ dialup Cable Wireless Internet

Asianet
ACCESS NETWORK Leasedline, ISDN/ dialup Cable

Asianet
ACCESS NETWORK Leasedline, ISDN/ dialup Cable

BACKBONE architecture Backbone ARCHITECTURE

CORE SWITCH CACHE ENGINE LEASED LINE ISDN PSTN CABLE LINK CABLE ACCESS ROUTER LEASED LINE ISDN PSTN CABLE LINK CABLE ACCESS ROUTER CORE SWITCH CACHE ENGINE

KOCHI

KOZHIKOD E REDUDUNDANT ROUTERS

REDUDUNDANT ROUTERS REDUDUNDANT ROUTERS THIRUVANANTHAPURAM

CACHE ENGINE + CONTENT ROUTER NMS

ASIANET RELIANCE BHARATI

WIRELESS

INTERNET ACCESS FIREWALL ROUTER INTERNET IDS CABLE LINK CABLE ACCESS ROUTER IP PHONE

CORE SWITCH DATABASE SERVER APPLICATION SERVER WEB SERVER MAIL SERVER DNS SERVER RADIUS SERVER

LEASED LINE ISDN PSTN

MPLS backbone
For Quality of service Customer traffic can be prioritised Different classes of traffic services

For traffic management Bandwidth aggregation Dedicated bandwidth allocation Bandwidth limiting Dynamic path selection Manual steering of traffic during congestions Increased security with label switching End to end MPLS VPN

For better security

District and Block Connectivity

Dept of IT organised a workshop on 12 May 2004, to identify the network requirements of Departments Some of the departments are in the advanced stage of E-Governance initiatives, which require immediate connectivity to the district level and beyond

SWAN Guidelines from DIT ,GOI

DIT released guidelines for setting up SWAN in August 2004
Funding support for district and block connectivity 5 year management included 2 Mbps network upto blocks Equipments to be funded by DIT, GOI Civil, electrical works, bandwidth cost, last mile to be State responsibility

Proposal presented before the Chief Secretary and other Govt Secretaries on 2nd September 2004 Proposal submitted to DIT, GOI in September 2004 Administrative sanction from DIT in April 2005

District connectivity

Wynad

Idukki

10 Mbps MPLS backbone 6 Mbps link to districts

District connectivity
KASARGOD THIRUVANANTHAPURAM KANNUR

NOC, TRIVANDRUM

NOC, KOZHIKODE TVM KOCHI KOZHIKODE MPLS BACKBONE

KOZHIKODE

WYNAD KOLLAM

NOC, KOCHI
MALAPPURAM PATHANAMTHITTA

PALAKKAD ERNAKULAM

IDUKKI

ALLEPPEY THRISSUR

KOTTAYAM

District HQ POP
UPLINK TO NOCs AT TVM, KOCHI, KKD
ROW BANDWIDTH BSNL LEASED LINE

DISTRICT HEAD QUARTERS

LEASED LINE WIRELESS

DIAL UP CONNECTION

LAST MILE CONNECTIVITY TO OFFICES

District Connectivity
Backbone network being extended to all 14 districts, growing from the three network centres of the backbone ring. Network designed over MPLS upto the districts Multiple E1 links and Ethernet connectivity from various providers ROW bandwidth Links terminated in fiber for high reliability Last mile over leased line, wireless and PSTN

Block connectivity

MPLS backbone of SII Link to districts Link to blocks

Block HQ POP
UPLINK TO DISTRICT HQ POP
BSNL LEASED LINE

BLOCK HEAD QUARTERS

LEASED LINE

WIRELESS

LAST MILE CONNECTION TO OFFICES

Block connectivity

Network being extended to all 152 blocks, growing from the district POPs Provision for multiple E1 links Provision for wireless connectivity

Horizontal connectivity

Last mile
Last mile access through Wireless Leased line ISDN PSTN Internet (to Data centre only)

Wireless Technologies
WiMax Technology of the future High throughput Standards evolving Spectrum availability and frequency licensing in India yet to finalise NLOS range limited to 1.5km 802.11g Matured standard High throughput Competitive products available License free spectrum Proprietary Competitive products available Locked to the manufacturer

Wireless Technology selected

Based on 802.11g Wireless base station in each district/ block POP Base station to support minimum of 60 remote radios Realised thru 3 to 4 radios per base station 10 Km minimum range Linkwise bandwidth management WPA2 and AES encryption MAC based authentication Remote management Quality of Service

Wireless last mile

Wireless coverage

High availability
Ring topology Multiple links from various bandwidth providers Dual redundant core routers Dual access routers Redundant switching engines Firewalls on failover Online network monitoring Fiber termination at NOCs Dual UPS in parallel redundant mode Diesel Generator back up for full load Precision AC in N+1 mode 24 x 7 helpdesk

Network and data security

MPLS core backbone network upto districts Firewall in all NOCs and POPs VPN Concentrator in all the 3 NOCs Intrusion Detection/ Prevention System AAA/ RADIUS authentication VLAN and zoning Antivirus solution AES, WPA2 based authentication for wireless Whole network to be certified as per BS7799/ ISO 27001

Network management
Centralised Network management Enterprise management/ monitoring system integrates various element management systems All the components are SNMP and MIB II compliant Web based monitoring with dedicated monitoring portals for each customer can be configured Availability of components, various performance parameters and traffic usage being monitored Offline reports on various parameters at various granularities Conformance to the SLA agreed upon by the operator verified through the reports from the monitoring system.

Utility for Depts

E-Governance applications IP Phone Get rid of the telephone bills

Video conferencing
Save time and money of the officers tour

Email
Instant correspondence

CONVENTIONAL LEASED LINE

BSNL EXCHANGE TRIVANDRUM

BSNL EXCHANGE KASARGOD

Main circuit link

BSNL NETWORK

Destination Local Lead Source Local Lead

DEPT DIST OFFICE KASARGOD

DEPT HQ TRIVANDRUM

Leased line to BHQ

KSWAN
MANJESWARAM BLOCK POP KSWAN NOC KOZHIKODE KSWAN NOC TRIVANDRUM KSWAN DIST POP KASARGOD TVM KOCHI KOZHIKODE MPLS BACKBONE

Leased line to DHQ/NOC Leased line to BHQ

KSWAN NOC KOCHI

DEPT OFFICE MANJESWARAM

DEPT HQ TRIVANDRUM

Wireless from BHQ

KSWAN
MANJESWARAM BLOCK POP KSWAN NOC KOZHIKODE KSWAN NOC TRIVANDRUM KSWAN DIST POP KASARGOD TVM KOCHI KOZHIKODE MPLS BACKBONE

Leased line to DHQ/NOC WIRELESS LINK

KSWAN NOC KOCHI

DEPT OFFICE MANJESWARAM

DEPT HQ TRIVANDRUM

LAST MILE THRU ISDN/DIAL UP

KSWAN
KSWAN DIST POP KASARGOD KSWAN NOC KOZHIKODE KSWAN NOC TRIVANDRUM TVM KOCHI KOZHIKODE MPLS BACKBONE

Leased line to DHQ/NOC

BSNL
ISDN/ PSTN

KSWAN NOC KOCHI

DEPT DIST OFFICE KASARGOD

DEPT HQ TRIVANDRUM

Status
NOC completed DHQS completed BHQs acceptance in progress Wireless connectivity to offices in progress

Present Applications

Commercial Taxes Directorate Kerala Water Authority - Billing Motor Vehicles Department SPARK, MESSAGE and FAST Collectorate Video conferencing Health Department HMIS, Rural Telemedicine Lotteries Department Video Conferencing for Village Knowledge Centres Police Department DIAL 100, Video conferencing facility

The Future

Extend the network to all Grama panchayats and village offices so that the network infrastructure reaches the grass root level Interconnectivity with other SWANs so that accessibility is possible nationwide.

THANK YOU