History of ERNET
- ERNET started with Dial-up network in 1986-87.
- Initially UUCP mail was only service started by ERNET.
- First leased line of 9.6 kbit/s was installed in Jan’1991 between Delhi and Mumbai.
- ERNET was alloted Class B IP address 144.16.0.0 by InterNIC in 1990. Subsequently Class C addresses were alloted to ERNET by APNIC.
- All IITs, IISc Bangalore, DOE Delhi and NCST Mumbai were connected by 9.6 kbit/s leased line by 1992.
- In 1992, 64 kbit/s Internet gateway link was commissioned from NCST Mumbai to UUNet in Virginia near Washington DC.
- In 1998 ERNET India was registered as Autonomous Society.
- In 1999-2000 new terrestrial high speed backbone was set up.
- In 2000 POP infrastructure was upgraded.
- Satellite WAN was set up in 1993.
- Today, 1100 institutes are ERNET users under different schemes.
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