The National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is a
non-profit company incorporated under Section 25 of the
India Companies Act, 1956 (now section 8 under
Companies Act 2013
The Companies Act 2013 is an Act of the Parliament of India on Indian company law which regulates incorporation of a company, responsibilities of a company, directors, dissolution of a company. The 2013 Act is divided into 29 chapters containing ...
) with an objective of facilitating improved internet services in the country.
History
Registered on 19 June 2003, its primary purpose is to facilitate exchange of domestic internet traffic between the peering ISPs, Content players and any other organisations with their own
AS number. This enables more efficient use of international bandwidth, saving foreign exchange and also improves the
quality of service (QoS) for internet users by avoiding multiple international
hops
Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant ''Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to whi ...
and thus reducing
latency.
Utilising servers routed through and administered by
India, it also reduces the chances of Indian data being
intercepted unlawfully by
NSA
The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collectio ...
and
GCHQ. NIXI is managed and operated on a neutral basis and currently has 40 operational
network operations center (NOCs) located in multiple parts of the country.
Since 2005, NIXI has also created
INRegistry (
.in
.in (india) is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) for India. It was made available in 1989, four years after original generic top-level domains such as .com, .net and the country code like .us. It is currently administe ...
domain) as its autonomous body for maintenance of .IN domain.
Since December 2012, NIXI also manages the
National Internet registry of the country delegation
Internet Protocol addresses
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label such as that is connected to a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.. Updated by . An IP address serves two main functions: network interface identi ...
(
IPv4
Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. IPv4 was the first version de ...
and
IPv6) and autonomous system numbers to its affiliates.
Effective from December 27, 2021, bulk domain registrations, with individuals registrant registering for more than 2 or an entity registering for more than 100 .in domains are required to seek prior approval from the CEO of National Internet Exchange of India.
[https://www.registry.in/registry/images/page/Bulk-Booking.pdf ]
See also
*
List of Internet exchange points
This is a list of Internet exchange points ( IXPs). There are several sources for IXP locations, including Packet Clearing House, who have maintained the earliest list of IXPs, with global coverage since 1994. Also, Telegeography, PeeringDB and t ...
*
Internet in India
References
External links
National Internet Exchange of India
{{Telecommunication companies of India
2003 establishments in Delhi
Executive branch of the government of India
Information technology organisations based in India
Internet exchange points in Asia
Companies based in New Delhi
Technology companies established in 2003