Newspapers are reporting that the much talked India’s first “real” nation-wide internet backbone is finally coming alive.
Reliance has dug up the entire country over last two years and now have fibreoptic backbone(with starting speeds of a few Gbps going upto 25Gbps) covering some 60000 km across 600 cities in India. It seems they are finally going to “light up” the first 1000 commercial buildings on this backbone in a few weeks. Once completly lit up, it will be world’s largest fibre-optic network by a huge margin and a big boon to internet connectivty in India.
Given that, both my new apartment complex and my current office are slated to be on this network (though not in first phase), I am just waiting for the day when I can connect from my home to office VPN at a blazing 25 Gbps peak [and watch lord of the rings dvd streaming from my office laptop on my home tv ].