State Wide Area Network SWAN A Case study of Meghalaya SWAN MSWAN BY Amit Soni AMTC S

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State Wide Area Network (SWAN) - A Case study
of Meghalaya SWAN (MSWAN)BYAmit Soni
AM(TC)STC Division8th November 2006
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Agenda

• What is SWAN ?
• Requirement Of SWAN
• Different Agencies in SWAN
• TCIL Role
• Case Study of Meghalaya SWAN

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What is SWAN?

• SWAN State Wide Area Network
• Network - The term Network stands for a group
  of telecom systems and computers connected to
  each other by some communication channel to share
  the resources.
• Types of Network-
• 1) Local Area Network (LAN)
• 2) Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)
• 3) Wide Area Network (WAN)

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Local Area Network (LAN)

• LAN It connects network devices over a
  relatively short distance like in a single
  building or campus . LANs are typically owned,
  controlled and managed by a single person and
  organization.

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Metropolitan Area Network (MAN)

• MAN - A MAN is designed to extend over an entire
  city. It may be a single network, or it may be a
  means of connecting a number of LANs into a
  larger network.

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Wide Area Network (WAN)

• WAN A WAN provides long distance transmission
  of data, voice, image and video information over
  large geographical areas that may comprise a
  country, continent, or even the whole world.
• Wide Area Network is a collection of networks
  spread over a geographical area

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SWAN

• State Wide Area Network (SWAN) It is a WAN
  covering whole state, incorporating many networks
  for providing data, voice and video services
  throughout the state.

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SWAN
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Requirement of SWAN

• A government to be SMART (Simple, Methodological,
  
• Accountable, Responsive, Transparent) needs to
  have
• Efficient reliable communication network
• Improved information flow among various levels
  and offices
• Reduced communication gaps
• Improved quality and speedy decision making
• Faster and better implementation of government
  schemes

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E-Governance need

• Various E-Governance applications are being
  developed for efficient delivery of service to
  citizens. For eg
• Transport-Registration of Motor Vehicles, issuing
  driving licenses etc.
• Health Care- Linking various Hospitals
  Tele-Medicine etc.
• Education-Linking various educational
  Institutions, distance learning etc.
• Employment-Online Registration for unemployed,
  computerization of day to day activities of
  employment exchange etc.
• Municipal- Bill deposition, Issue of Certificates
  - Birth / Death / Land records etc.

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Different Agencies

• Department of Information Technology (DIT), GoI
• States Information Technology Department
• Consultants
• Implementing Agency
• NicNET
• Third Party Monitoring Agency

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Different Agencies - DIT

• Govt. of India, Department of Information
  Technology (DIT)
• The Government of India has planned a national
  level initiative- National e-Governance Plan,
  (NeGP) for increased transparency, efficiency and
  effectiveness for delivery of citizen services.
• An important component of the NeGP is SWAN which
  has now been identified as an element of core
  infrastructure for supporting e- Governance
  initiatives. DIT, GOI has also embarked a
  significant outlay for supporting this activity.
  Under NeGP SWAN policy it is proposed to connect
  state capital (SHQ) with all the Districts Head
  Quarter (DHQ) and subsequently all the DHQ to be
  connected with Sub-division Head Quarter/Blocks
  (SDHQ/Block).

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Different Agencies - DIT

• SWAN is one of the Mission Mode project
• Total NeGP outlay for SWAN Rs 3000 Cr
• To connect state capital (SHQ) with all the
  Districts Head Quarter (DHQ) and subsequently all
  the DHQ to be connected with Sub-division Head
  Quarter / Blocks (SDHQ/Block).

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Implementation Plan

• State would need to establish the SWAN using
  either of the two options provided by DIT, GOI
• Option I State to identify a suitable PPP model
  (BOO, BOOT etc.), select an appropriate agency
  through a suitable competitive process for
  outsourcing establishment, operation and
  maintenance of the Network.
• Option II Designated NIC as the prime
  implementation agency for the SWAN for
  establishment, operation and maintenance of the
  network as an integral part of NICNET, with an
  appropriate end-to-end Service Level Agreement
  (SLA).

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Implementation Plan

• Department of IT, GoI supports (cost/funding) to
  state Government w.r.t. different options.
• DIT will support the entire cost of
  establishment, operation and maintenance of the
  SWAN for a period of five years (except recurring
  charges of Bandwidth) to state Govt / NIC on 100
  grant basis .
• Terminal equipment at each Point of Presence
  (PoP) one PoP at each location (without
  horizontal connectivity) i.e. SHQ/DHQs/SDHQs/BHQs
  covered by the SWAN.
• Cost of consultancy (only for option I)
• Cost of Third party monitoring (option I) / Cost
  of Third party auditors (option II).

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TCILs Role

• Role of TCIL w.r.t. different options are as
  follows
• Option I
• Consultant
• Implementing Agency All the states, except where
  TCIL is the consultant.
• Third party Monitoring All the states, except
  where TCIL will implement
• Option II
• Auditors
• Third party Monitoring

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TCILs Role

• SWAN Projects completed or under progress with
  TCIL

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Case Study

• Meghalaya State Wide Area Network (MSWAN)

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Introduction

• Initiatives of Government of Meghalaya (GoM)
• Establishment of Meghalaya Information
  Technology Society (MITS), which will be
  responsible for e-governance initiative to take
  care of activities related to implementation and
  management of these initiatives
• Proposal for the set-up of the Meghalaya State
  wide Area Network (MSWAN) for modernisation of
  communication set-up which will help in the
  development of state
• Appointment of Telecommunications Consultants
  India Ltd. (TCIL) as their consultant to assist
  GoM for implementation of MSWAN

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Introduction

• Objectives of MSWAN
• GoM has proposed to set up Meghalaya State Wide
  Area Network (MSWAN) for the purpose of
• Connecting Govt. agencies/ departments/ offices
  at SHQ with all DHQs and subsequently to all the
  SDHQs/Blocks in a 24x7 quality network,
  extendable for Public to Government interaction
• Providing connectivity across the state through
  one network and re-engineering of various
  departments and government services to ensure
  easy information flow
• Having one single network to deploy the e-Gov
  application for various activities
• Establishing a network that functions as IT
  gateway for seamless, effortless instantaneous
  information flow

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Introduction

• Facilities provided by MSWAN
• SWAN facilitates the government to discharge its
  obligations more efficiently as follows
• Integration of various existing stand-alone
  applications and provide effective
  interconnectivity
• Effective Voice and Video communication
• Catering of Data transfer needs between
  government departments as well as for the
  government interface with public
• Monitoring of development programs
• Improved quality of decision-making and
  governance by the easy access of required
  information

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Introduction

• TCILs Scope of Work - As a consultant, TCIL will
  carry out
• System Design including the Requirement
  Definition, Site Survey, Concept formation and
  Technology evaluation.
• Preparation and submission of a system design
  report covering the requirements of the network,
  Technical design, Financial analysis and
  suggestions on the purchase model.
• Preparation and submission of the RFP document
  consisting of the finalized network requirements,
  general and special conditions of the contract,
  information for the prospective bidders.
• Evaluation of the submitted bids including the
  Pre-qualification, Technical and Financial bids
  and subsequent finalizing of the selected bidder.
• Supervising the installation and commissioning of
  the network and conducting the acceptance testing
  (partial and final), with regular submission of
  status and test reports.

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Requirement Definition

• System Study
• Survey conducted by TCIL provides the following
  information for working out the requirements of
  the network
• Organizational Structure, Geographical
  spread-over, information flow at SHQ, DHQ, SDHQ
  BHQ
• Estimate number of Point of Presence (POP) for
  horizontal connectivity
• Current infrastructure at State, District,
  Subdivision and Block Headquarter levels
• Communication needs of various departments

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Requirement Definition

• Overview of Meghalaya
• The upcoming MSWAN will have the following
  hierarchy
• State Headquarter (SHQ), at Shillong
• 7 District Headquarters (DHQ)
• 8 Subdivision Headquarters (SDHQ)
• 39 Block Headquarters (Blocks)
• The state government, with its headquarters
  (SHQ) at Shillong, has about 55 Departments

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Requirement Definition

• Connectivity Scheme

The proposed MSWAN network will follow a
hierarchical connectivity scheme as shown
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Concept of PoP
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Concept of PoP
State capital-SHQ
Horizontal POP
Vertical POP
District HQs
1
N
Horizontal Offices
Subdivision / Block HQs
1
N
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Requirement Definition

• 7 District Headquarters (DHQ)
• Located in Dy. Commissioners office campus
• Function as aggregation point for horizontal
  connectivity
• Based on the geographical spread-over, status of
  industrialisation, population, number of offices
  and users, the 7 DHQ are categorised as

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Requirement Definition

• 7 District Headquarters (DHQ)
• As per the survey, the category-wise number of
  Horizontal PoPs at DHQs, for horizontal
  connectivity are as follows

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Requirement Definition

• 8 Subdivision Headquarters (SDHQ)
• Headed by Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO)
• All SDHQ located at the SDOs office
• 2 Horizontal PoPs will cater the horizontal
  connectivity at SDHQ
• 39 Block Headquarters (BHQ)
• Headed by Block Development Officer (BDO)
• All BHQ located at the BDOs office
• Core PoP to cater all the users (3-6) in the BDO
  campus

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User Requirements
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User Requirements

• The indicative user requirement for voice data
  services within next 5 years (duration of
  project) is estimated to be double of current
  requirement.

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Concept Network Design
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Concept Network Design

• State Headquarters (SHQ)
• Located at Secretariat Building, Shillong
• Function as Network Operation Center (NOC)
• 21 PoP will cater the horizontal connectivity at
  SHQ

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Concept Network Design

• Connectivity at SHQ

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Concept Network Design

• Connectivity at DHQ

H.323 VC Equipment
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Concept Network Design

• Connectivity at SDHQ / BHQ

IP Phones
System
MSS
Links to DHQ
Ethernet LAN
Horizontal PoPs
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Concept Network Design

• Connectivity at Remote BHQs

Ku / Xc Band
Remote BHQ
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Design Features

• Interfaces shall be realized on plug-in cards
  with hot swappable facility
• Equipment footprint and power consumption should
  be kept to the minimum
• Scalability of design with respect to number of
  centres, interfaces per center and bandwidth
• Ability to route data traffic as per requirement
  from any location to any other location
• Ability to route the voice traffic based on the
  uniform numbering scheme

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Design Features

• Support for all industry standard protocols for
  data communication
• Sufficient diagnostic facilities alongwith the
  details level to identify locate the faults
  and easy rectification of faults.
• The equipments/ interfaces should comply with
  relevant ITU-T/ IEEE/ EIA/ ANSI/ NEBS/ TEC etc.
  standards as applicable.
• The proposed network design shall allow the
  connectivity of existing networks with MSWAN
  using standard protocol

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Design Features

• Redundancy

• Redundancy of relevant elements at appropriate
  levels to minimize disruption of services
• Redundant Control Processors.
• Redundant Load Sharing Power Supplies.
• Hot Swappable Modules.
• The design at DHQs should cater for providing
  redundancy, whenever required by GoM, to the
  extent that each DHQ may be connected to the
  adjacent DHQ and each DHQ is connected to SHQ

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Operational Requirements

• Operational Requirements The Percentage uptime
  shall be as follows
• Tier First 3 years Last 2
  years
• At SHQ - 99.90 - 99.99
• At DHQ - 99.50 - 99.90
• At SDHQ/BLOCK/ - 98 - 99.50
• Co-located remote offices
• Operation on commercial 230V AC, 48V DC input
  power with 50 Hz 1
• 24 hrs Toll free Help desk facility and technical
  manuals for providing procedural/ technical
  assistance to the users.

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Security

• Firewall
• Intrusion Detection and Protection System
• Antivirus
• Radius Software for AAA functionality

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Network Monitoring Management

• The Network monitoring management software are
  an integral part of the network performing the
  following tasks
• To give accurate report of Hardware and Software
  deployed on the network.
• To give comprehensive report on the configuration
  of Hardware and Software change made in any part
  of the network.
• To drill down to a particular network element to
  view the details of the response time,
  availability, reloads, protocols and interface
  status. To identify analyze failures of any
  link / element on the network
• To isolate network error condition and suggest
  probable cause.
• To print traffic analysis of peak / lean
  hours/days/months etc.
• To print down time / Up time w.r.t various
  Network elements and its components/ links /
  Facilities and overall Network.

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Connectivity Analysis
Categories

• Two categories of connectivities are required
  for MSWAN
• Vertical i) SHQ to 7 DHQs
• ii) DHQ to SDHQs / BHQs
• Horizontal i) Government offices in Shillong
  to SHQ
• ii) District offices with
  DHQ and
• iii) Sub divisional
  offices to SDHQ
• For Vertical connectivity only BSNL has network
  across the state.

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Connectivity Analysis
BSNL Option

• Network exists throughout the Meghalaya state
• Leased lines available from SHQ to 7 districts, 8
  Subdivisions and 23 Blocks
• No leased line facility at 14 Blocks, (viz.
  Baghmara, Betasing, Chokpot, Gasupara, Gambegre,
  Shella, Lasiken, Mawjrong, Mawkynrew, Ranikore,
  Rongra, Saipung, Samanda and Zigzag) as indicated
  during meeting with BSNL officials.
• In 2 Blocks (Chokpot and Jirang Patharkhmah)E1
  link will be available after December 2006

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Connectivity Analysis

• Solution

• Vertical Connectivity
• Leased Links from BSNL for Vertical connectivity
  wherever available
• VSAT link for Blocks wherever BSNL connectivity
  in not available
• Horizontal Connectivity
• Hybrid solution including Leased Lines, RF, OFC
  etc depending on the location best suited
  technology vis - a- vis cost.

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Outsourcing Model

• Modified BOOT Model
• Services required as required by the State Govt.
  are specified
• Govt. releases guaranteed payments on quarterly
  basis against the services prescribed in SLA
  (Service Level Agreement)
• Vendor to take care of the availability of the
  spares to maintain guaranteed uptime
• For monitoring of network, separate agency need
  to be involved (if required) and paid accordingly

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Bandwidth Requirement
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Benefits of MSWAN
Intangible Benefits

• Productivity Benefits
• Managerial Benefits
• Public access services
• High IT Industrial Growth
• Image building of the State

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Benefits of MSWAN
Tangible Benefits

• Financial Savings MSWAN would help in
  considerable time saving for the direct users
  resulting in an increase in the productivity of
  the employee. This increase in productivity would
  result in financial savings to the government
• Time Management - Due to MSWAN the decision
  making process, plan formulation and
  implementation would be effective and it would
  also save the workhour of all government
  employees
• Due to MSWAN there would also be savings in
  expenditures like Telecom, Travelling, Fuel and
  Stationery etc.

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• Thank you !