ECIL to make high-speed network routers designed by IIT-Bombay

Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) has entered into a licensing agreement with IIT-Bombay to manufacture high-speed transport routers developed by the latter’s gigabit networking laboratory.

Based on the technology developed by Aswhin Gumaste, professor at IIT-Bombay, and his team, these routers promise to set new price/performance benchmarks in an industry dominated by imported products.

Equipped with built-in security features and a fully-Indian design, this development is significant in the context of apprehensions expressed by experts about the vulnerabilities posed by black box’ products, populating the information highways, which carry vital and strategic data, an ECIL release said.

With the national data infrastructure set to grow manifold with gigabit pipes slated to enter villages, this development fills a vital gap in the indigenous technology fabric, it said on Friday.

 

The core of the new router consists of an indigenous technology that facilitates the collapsing of the lower three layers of the Internet – physical, data-link and the network – into a single, unified networking medium. The patent-pending technology takes advantage of the inter-connection pattern in networks while adhering to service rendering attributes that are critical to meet the challenges of emerging services.

This network supports metro transport, data centre, mobile backhaul, carrier-class transport and the metro/access market.

ECIL is a city-based public sector enterprise that supplies strategic electronics equipment to nuclear, defence, security, aerospace and e-governance sectors.