Networking and cyber security products and solutions company Nivetti Systems on Saturday unveiled the country’s fastest homegrown internet protocol/multiprotocol label switching (IP/MPLS) router in Bengaluru, in the presence of Union minister for communications, electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw.
MPLS is a telecommunications routing technique that guides data between nodes using labels instead of network addresses. Nivetti’s latest high-security core router has a capacity of 2.4 terabits per second (tbps), and runs on India’s first and only, fully indigenous operating system, Nivetti NiOS, which has been evaluated for security by Defence Research & Development Organisation-Scientific Analysis Group (DRDO-SAG) and Standardisation Testing and Quality Certification. The company claims that its IP/MPLS routers have been deployed on various large networks, including power grids, Indian Navy, Centre for Development of Telematics, DRDO and a host of private enterprises.
“It’s really a momentous achievement for our country and a matter of pride for us that an indigenously developed and manufactured router, secure and with a capacity of 2.4 tbps, has been launched today. Within networking a core router like this is very important, and is at the core of the Digital India initiative under our PM Narendra Modi. I am glad that a complex equipment like this has been designed, developed, and made in India,” Vaishnaw said during the launch event. “Manufacturing is no longer just a mechanical process. Today, manufacturing processes involve a lot of software, innovation, and brain power in hardware,” he added.
“Having a strong base in software, and design capabilities puts us right at the takeoff point to become a major product nation of the world. We have been a good service-oriented nation, which will continue to grow. In parallel, we will make our efforts to be a product manufacturing nation. That is the focus,” he further said.
The minister said equipment such as routers fit into the ecosystem of a digital world that the prime minister has repeatedly reinforced programme after programme. “We will also work on policy measures that remove any roadblocks that innovators face in their journey to create,” he said.
Vaishnaw said the government started this journey through multiple structures, through design-led innovation, PLI and various startup modules. “In Prime Minister Modi’s third term we are going to see many of these structures scale up in a very big way, by which innovators can look at significant market opportunities in India, and through exports.”
He added: “I hope that thousands and thousands of such 2.4 tbps routers will be installed in the coming months in the country, and that this becomes a product that is exported to the world.”
