Sify, yesterday has become first commercial content portal in India to be IPv6 enabled making Sify first to leave 20 years old IPv4 technology and deploy IPv6 technologies and its associated services in India. Apparently in India before Sify there seems to be only one IPv6 enabled website which is - IPv6 test network at BITS, Pilani, though not being commercial, Sify now become one of the first such service for public. IPv6 fixes a number of problems in IPv4, such as the limited number of available IPv4 addresses along with other improvements such as routing, networking and auto configuration. From now onwards, Sify's entire suite of IP connectivity services, including Internet access to enterprise customers and MPLS-based IP-VPN services are IPv6 enabled. This ensures that Sify's customers can transition and migrate from a basic IPv4 based network service to IPv6 Next Generation Network with dual-stack i.e. IPv6 & IPv4 support.

At the end of year 2008 when the number the number of broadband subscribers in India was 52.8 lakh and the ISPs providing broadband internet also growing Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) released a consultation paper on "Bandwidth required for ISPs for better connectivity and improved quality of service" and this way will identify easily monitorable and enforceable quality of service (QoS) of ISPs, to ensure that a bare minimum (floor) bandwidth is available with service providers for their subscribers in India. TRAI has realized that India is growing as emerging countries for application that require higher bandwidth with speed and quality at high priority such as IPTV, P2P sharing, online videos, virtual tours along with e-marts and e-commerce related applications. As a matter of fact TRAI has revealed that subscribers in India alleged that Broadband connections is much less than subscribed speed. Earlier in year 2006 TRAI had define various parameters like packet loss, latency in the network, peak bandwidth utilization etc. and ISPs are supposed to monitor their network and take corrective measures/ action to maintain quality of service. And despite of this it is seen that such corrective actions are not taken by ISPs in time. Via Press Bureau ...

Internet and phone communications in various countries like India, Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Taiwan and Pakistan and been disrupted and it is believed that 65% of traffic to India was down. The reason was severed submarine cable near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt which all been cut. Even I could see the slowdown effects of same on my broadband internet connection till today morning (21st December, 08). The full proof work is still going on and second subsea cable is being laid near Malta and it will take 31 December to fully repair the line. Serious effects has been predicted to economies of most effected countries. According to report published by Bloomberg - Internet traffic "from Mumbai to London has now been rerouted via Hong Kong which may lead to congestion and increased latency on this route," Reliance said in an e-mailed "traffic disruption update," adding that it is working with the affected customers to restore all services. The main damage is to the four submarine cables running across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal and the cause of this is believed to be seismic activity or could even be the anchors of big ships.

As an unfortunate thing, India is figured in top 10 Spam sending countries in the world, accounting for nearly 3% of total spam sent globally in 2nd quarter of year 2008. As per report by security firm Secure Computing, it is estimated that these Top 10 countries account for 55% of total spam volume of the world. US is on top of spammers list with 16.56%, making a large gap between it following countries. Russian Federation, Turkey and Brazil is on 2nd, 3rd and 4th on list respectively. India ranked 9th in list accounts for nearly 3% of total spams sent across the globe. See - India high on Internet vulnerabilities - Orkut, Mozilla on List Interestingly the report also revealed a spam-based email attack that links to new Web-based malware and features news on Hollywood celebrities such as Angelina Jolie as bait, whose sole purpose is to download malware posing security threat. The report recognized 'Angelina Jolie' as a name used on top of list of malware containing mails followed by other big names such as Barack Obama, Paris Hilton, Britney and Jessica Simpson. Other interesting thing depicted in report in this report is that - out of the 2008 roster of Fortune ...

Question - With Free Internet Telephony just come up in India some of you could thought that, you were already making calls over the internet, than what's this Free Internet Telephony meant for? Answer - That works only over net-enabled PCs. You couldn’t terminate internet telephony calls on fixed and mobile networks and vice-versa. Now TRAI newest recommendation has now made it possible to do so. TRAI (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India) has broken the ice finally after all that scrutiny over illegal Internet telephony in India in last year's October when big names such as Skype, Google, Net2Phone has to go under scrutiny and alleged of 10 million minutes of illegal net telephony without any license. On 12th of May TRAI released a 12 questions consultation paper on "Issues related to Internet Telephony", which needs to replied by the stake holders, example of various countries and background of Internet Telephony in India. The question relates to whether ISPs should be permitted net Telephony services to land-line phones within India, what would be implication and Interconnections between computers and land-line/ mobile phones. On Aug 18 TRAI come with detail recommendation i.e. conclusion to permit Internet telephony to ISPs with permission to provide Internet ...

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has announced the rejuvenation work to be implemented till year 2009 and that would be taken as biggest expansion in last 40 years in Internet, since its inception. ICANN has approved some recommendations that bring out the more of internet for people to express themselves. Below are some recommendation; New strings in domains TLDs (Top Level Domains) from presently .com, .org or .edu etc. to any user choice such as .YourCompanyName or .music for music industry or .brandName for any company brand or even your name like www.website.ramanarayan. New scripts/ languages support for domains, URI to be written in and that would extended to world's languages which will important for future of internet in Asia, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia. The Hint is that it can be written in these region's languages respectively, from presently 37 Roman characters only. Presently users have 21 Top Level Domains (TLDs) to chose from, soon after this expansion the users can have self chosen TLDs to name their domains, unless these TLDs are not offensive based on public morality and order. It is expected that ICANN will accept applications for new names in the second quarter of 2009. Importantly, ...