Interesting trivia about the history of ERNET

• ERNET started with a dial-up network in 1986-87.

• Initially, UUCP mail was only service started by ERNET.

• First leased line of 9.6 kbps was installed in Jan’1991 between Delhi and Mumbai.
  

• ERNET was alloted Class B IP address 144.16.0.0 by InterNIC in 1990. Subsquently, Class C addresses were alloted to ERNET by APNIC.
  

• All IITs, IISc Bangalore, DOE Delhi and NCST Mumbai were connected by 9.6 kbps leased line by 1992.
  
  
• In 1992, a 64 kbps Internet gateway link was commissioned from NCST Mumbai to UUNet in Virginia near Washington D. C..
  

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From:
http://www.ipv6.ernet.in/deepaksingh.ppt (c. 2005).


Also:
IP Ranges:
NCSI 144.16.72.129 to 144.16.72.189
IISC 144.16.64 to 144.16.95
From:
http://144.16.72.147/gsdl/collect/tracol/index/assoc/HASH014d.dir/doc.doc (Dated: 2000-2001)