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..
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)
2 comments:
Off the records!
Were you able to make it to Vinton Cerf's speech in B'lore?
No. Abhinav did:
http://abhinavrajmathur.blogspot.com/2007/02/vinton-cerf-guru-was-here.html
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