Google, Railtel to launch free WiFi in Bhubaneswar station; 10 others to follow

Expansion of the network installation of Internet high-speed rail users, rail will launch the service Wi-Fi Google station Bhubaneswar on April 17, the second season to be covered by the project .

Designed to offer users the best Internet experience lane, Wi-Fi will be available to any user with a smartphone. Judgment of Wi-Fi is going on for some time in Bhubaneswar in Odisha and will start on Sunday, a senior official of the Ministry of Railways said.

After Mumbai Central, Bhubaneswar will be the second station have free Google service Wi-Fi in the country. rail users would be able to transmit high-definition videos waiting for their trains at the railway station with Wi-Fi into operation.

Under the initiative of the digital India, railways promises to provide better Internet services to passengers at 100 busiest stations later this year. Besides Bhubaneswar, tests are being carried out in about 10 more stations including Jaipur, Patna, Ranchi, Ernakulum, Allahabad, Lucknow and Guwahati have the Wi-Fi shortly.

Railtel, a power supply of railways, in collaboration with Google is providing Wi-Fi in stations. Over time, the service will be launched in 400 stations across the country covering all major railway facilities. Railtel has a fiber optic network Pan-India exclusively on the railway. It has performed more than 45,000 kilometers of fiber optic networks across the country, which Google will use to its Wi-Fi. The network consists of a wide coverage and high capacity use unlike a typical point of Wi-Fi connectivity that provides limited access area.

According to the plan, Railtel will be the ISP, while Google will provide wireless wide area networks (WAN) and will start the access points to the platforms.

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America appreciates the stand of India's multi-carrier approach online game

The USA. They have applauded recent support of India for the multi-stakeholder approach to Internet, saying the decision is critical to ensuring the vitality of the World Wide Web.

"A few weeks ago, communications (India) Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the government of India to support the multi-stakeholder approach in the latest Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) meeting, "said Catherine A Novelli, Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and Environment, yesterday.

Addressing a meeting of the Internet Governance Forum, USA, Novelli said Prasad emphasized the idea that several stakeholderism should cover all geographies and societies.

"I could not agree more with the minister Prasad at this point and hope that our ongoing dialogue with India and others on this important issue," Novelli said.

"All citizens - regardless of the country they live - can contribute to decision-making worldwide in how to manage this common resource," he said ahead of the Internet Governance Forum worldwide this year (IGF) in Brazil.

Noting that there has been a growth in stature IGF participants in recent years, the diversity and background, she said this was a very positive development.

The IGF has proven to be an important place for the community of multiple stakeholders to share opinions, ideas and solutions to problems associated with a number of internet governance issues and policies. Its continued growth and long-term stability is absolutely essential for the future of the Internet, Novelli said.

"In Brazil, we have to keep showing the world that the multi-stakeholder approach, which brings together government policy makers, businesses, non-governmental organizations and experts on the Internet on an equal footing is the best way to overcome effectively the challenges of today and preserve the Internet's future, "Novelli said, adding that she was delighted with the growing support for this model of Internet governance he said.

Noting that the Internet offers unprecedented opportunities for economic growth in developing countries, said 1.4 billion extremely poor people in the developing world, 70% live in rural areas.

Their lives can be transformed by connecting rural schools to the web, bringing telemedicine to remote rural health centers, providing accurate information to farmers and fishermen and providing information up-to-date meteorological information market producers, Novelli said.

She said that for every ten per cent increase in Internet penetration in a country, its total economic growth expands by one to two percent.

"The Internet is an essential tool for creating shared prosperity. It is essential to economic growth as roads, electricity grids and ports," Novelli said.

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IP traffic in India grow four times from 2014-2019, says Cisco

Traffic Internet Protocol (IP) in India will quadruple to a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 33 percent in 2019 due to increased demand mobile access and video services, technology firm Cisco said . It took 32 years - 1984 to 2016 - to generate a zettabyte IP traffic annually.

According to Visual Networking Index this year, we will generate two zettabytes of IP traffic per year, only three years later, in 2019, "said Sanjay Kaul, managing director of global business services, Cisco India and SAARC, in the tenth annual Red Cisco Visual Index Forecast for India.

"In India, IP traffic will grow four times from 2014-2019, a compound annual growth of 33 percent and reach four exabytes per month in 2019, compared to 967 petabytes per month in 2014," he added.

Excessive consumption of mobile data network devices clouds, faster speeds and increased broadband video consumption are key factors for growth, according to the forecast, the addition of networked devices in India will grow from 1 one million devices in 2014 to 1.6 billion in 2019, while the average fixed broadband speed will increase from 4 Mbps in 2014-12 Mbps in 2019.

Mobile data traffic is another area that is expected to see phenomenal growth in India - fold growth rate 13 at a CAGR of 67 percent, says Cisco.

Mobile traffic was nine percent of total IP traffic in 2014 and reach 28 percent of total IP traffic in 2019, according to the forecast.

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