Connectivity at the office of President of India
Out of curiosity, I put an RTI asking President of India’s Secretariat about connectivity at President’s office.
Questions I asked and their replies
Question 1: Who is the Internet service provider?
Reply: National Informatics Centre meity is providing internet service at President Office.
Question 2: Speed of Internet connection at President’s Office?
Reply: Presently the speed is 100 Mbps.
Question 3: (And my favourite!) Is IPv6 deployed?
Reply: IPV6 supported by most devices. However, IPV4 addressing is used at present.
Question 4: How much internet connection costs at the President’s Office?
Reply: NIC, being a Government Department provides connection on its own budget. The President Office does not incur any expenses towards this.
100Mbps seems interesting and actually decent enough to get the job done. I wish they also had support for IPv6. Probably I should not put an RTI asking NIC on their IPv6 support plans for the President’s Office! 🙂
Raw RTI reply is here.
Nice. Question 5. What’s the WiFi password ?
Well, let me guess answer to that question…mmm…OTP? 😛
oh right, the good old aadhaar otp 🙂
This is interesting. Also good to know GOI responded. I’m curious what powers the NIC line? Do they have a direct connection to backbone line? Or they’re using an ISP? If so, who is the ISP? BSNL?
NIC (AS4758) has uplink connectivity to NKN (AS9885) network and NKN has uplink from Tata, Vodafone, Reliance and BSNL – https://bgp.he.net/AS4758#_graph4