Publicly Available NKN Data Traffic Graphs
National Knowledge Network (NKN) is one of India’s main National Research and Educational Network (NREN). The other being the less prevalent now, Education and Research Network (ERNET).
This post grew out of this Mastodon thread where I kept on adding various public graphs (from various global research and educational entities) that peer or connect with NKN. This was to get some purview about traffic data between them and NKN.
CERN
CERN, birthplace of the World Wide Web (WWW) and home of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
- Graph - https://monit-grafana-open.cern.ch/d/XoND3VQ4k/nkn?orgId=16&from=now-30d&to=now&timezone=browser&var-source=raw&var-bin=5m
- Connection seems to be 2x10 G through CERNLight.
India participates in the LHCONE project, which carries LHC data over these links for scientific research purposes. This presentation from Vikas Singhal from Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Kolkata, at the 8th Asian Tier Center Forum in 2024 gave more details.
GÉANT
GÉANT is pan European Union’s collaboration of NRENs.
- Graph https://public-brian.geant.org/d/ZyVgYFgVk/nkn?orgId=5&from=now-30d&to=now
- NKN connects at Amsterdam POP.
- From the 2016 press release from GÉANT, NKN seems to have 2x10 G capacity towards GÉANT. Things might have changed since.
LEARN
Lanka Education and Research Network (LEARN) is Sri Lanka’s NREN.
- Graph https://kirigal.learn.ac.lk/traffic/details.php?desc=slt-b1-new&data_id=1788&data_id_v6=&sub_bw=1000&name=National%20Knowledge%20Network%20of%20India%20(1G)&swap_inout=
- Connection seems to be 1 G.
NORDUnet
NREN for Nordic countries.
I couldn’t find any public live data transfer graphs from NKN side. If you know any other graphs, do let me know.