GOVT LAUNCHES INDIA'S FASTEST ROUTER

In a significant stride towards technological independence and innovation, Union Minister for Communications, Electronics and Information Technology and Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw launched India's fastest and indigenously designed IP/ MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) router in Bengaluru on Saturday.

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MPLS is a routing technique in telecommunications networks that directs data from one node to the next, based on labels rather than network addresses.

The project is spearheaded by the collaboration of the government's Department of Telecom, CDOT and Nivetti.

It marks a momentous achievement in the nation's journey towards becoming a major product and manufacturing hub in the global tech landscape.

Vaishnaw said, "It is matter of pride for us that indigenously developed and made in India router, a secure router, a core routers of capacity 2.4 tbps has been developed and launched today. This is a core router, which is secure and which can actually provide very important functions in our entire Prime Minister's vision of Digital India." "As you know, networking is key to entire Digital India efforts. And within networking routers, a core router like this is very, very important.