NIC : NATIONAL INFORMATICS CENTRE
NIC is a central government organisation providing network backbone & e-governance solutions to central government, state governments, UT administrations, districts & other government bodies. it offers a wide range of ICT services including nationwide communication network for decentralised planing , improvement in government service & wider transparency of national & local governments.
NIC assists in implementing information technology projects, in close colaboration with central & state governments , in the areas of :
- centrally sponsored schemes & central sector schemes,
- state sector & state sponsored projects
- district administration sponsored projects.
one of the major strengths of NIC lies in the area of producing quality software at low cost. NIC is working at the grass root levels of the development administration & its expertise is not limited only to software engineering but also lies in the area of implementing it in various sectors of the economy also. NIC is constantly trying to develop state-of-the-art application software related to various sectors, which is customized to the user needs.NIC , framing e-governance action plan & setting up of data centre. NIC has established NICNET as a government informatics network for E-Governance.
the NIC-ICT infrastructure compromise:
- the satellite based wide area network has about 3000 nodes.
- integrated network operations centre for round the clock monitoring of NICNET.
- internet data centre at with storage capacity of 60 tera bytes for hosting websites & databases.
- data centres at state capitals for their local storage needs having storage capacity from 2-5 tera bytes.
- national long distance high speed leased data circuits connecting all states capitals.
- connectivity from state to districts using 2mbps leased circuits.
- about 30,000 nodes of local area networks in all the central government offices & state governement secretariats.
- video conferencing facilities in the state capitals & districts. total number of locations is 490.
- internet gateway bandwidth enhanced to 418 mbps for incoming & 384 mbps for outgoing traffic with multiple alternate paths.
- nicnet peering with NIXI with a bandwudth of 68 mbps.
for faster & timely retrieval of information, nic has connected all the states centres with leased line & fibre optics of capacity 2-45 mbps with backup links in 19 states.
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