Issued by the Government of India, Ministry of Communications,
Departmetn of Telecom
On behalf of the President of India, proposals are invited from Internet
Service Providers (ISPs) for setting up of Submarine Cable Landing Stations
for International Gateway for Internet.
Note: The landing station is the first point at which
the submarine cable is terminated/connected in India. The landing station
will be used as international gateway for internet traffic by ISP.
I - GENERAL
1. Landing station for International Gateway for Internet shall
be within the service area of the ISP licensee.
2.The landing Station for International Gateway for Internet shall be
used only for carrying Internet traffic
3.The Landing Station shall not be used for any unlawful activity or
against public interest.
4.The Landing Station configuration shall be strictly and exactly as
per the details provided in the prescribed application. Any variation to
that shall only be with the prior written permission of the Telecom Authority.
5.The Landing Station shall be set up only after getting the permission
or clearance from the Telecom Authority.
6.Any information that is asked by the Telecom Authority from the licensee
shall be provided forthwith by it and in any case, not later than 15 days
of asking for the same.
7.The Telecom Authority or personnel authorized by the Telecom Authority
reserves the right to carry out surprise inspection at the Landing Station
to ensure that only internet traffic is carried through the Landing Station
and the Landing Station is not used for unlawful activities or against
public interest.
8.All other applicable clearances/permissions that are required as per
the laws of the land, shall be obtained by the ISP licensee.
9.The transmission link between the ISP node/point of presence and the
Landing Station, if they are not co-located, is regulated as per the ISP
licence agreement condition 7.2 of schedule C, part II i.e. the transmission
link should be from DOT, licensed Basic service operators, Railways, State
Electricity Board, National Powergrid Corporation or any other operator
specially authorised to lease such links to ISP.
10.The ISP shall provide information about all ISPs that would be connected
to the Landing Station. Any addition shall be with the prior written permission
of the Telecom Authority.
11.Any change or addition in the network topology of Landing Station
shall be done only with the prior written permission of the Telecom Authority
12.Any change or addition in the type of services offered shall be with
the prior written permission of the Telecom Authority
13.Landing Station shall not to be set up in security sensitive areas.
The Internet nodes covering places of security importance shall be routed
through VSNL only. The security sensitive areas would be identified from
time to time. As on date the security sensitive areas are Punjab, J &
K , North Eastern States, border areas of Rajasthan, Andaman & Nicobar
Islands and coastal areas of Gujarat and Tamilnadu (excluding Chennai).
14.The ISP licensee shall make available all the billing details of
any subscriber on demand by Telecom Authority.
15.The ISP licensee shall block Internet sites and individual subscribers,
as identified by Telecom Authority
16.The Telecom Authority (Licensor) reserves the right to make changes
in the security related requirements.
17.In case of any complaint or dispute with regard to the resource (bandwidth)
from the Submarine Cable or from any subscriber regarding service, such
complaint or dispute shall be a matter between the licensee and the bandwidth
provider/the subscriber. The licensor shall not be party to any such complaint/dispute.
The licensee undertakes to indemnify licensor in respect of any action
against licensor for acts of commission or omission by or on the part of
the resource (bandwidth) provider, licensee, its agents and servants.
18.The licensee shall ensure that the Landing Station does not interfere
with any other existing systems of Department of Telecom Operations (DTO)
or any telecom service provider.
19.The ISP licensee who sets up the Landing Station cannot claim any
right or will not get any special preference to carry voice traffic, whenever
the sector is opened up for private participation.
20.The ISP licencee would take all necessary steps to ensure that these
terms and conditions and the terms and conditions of the ISP licence are
complied by themselves as well as by the subscribers/entities who use the
service through the ISP licencee.
21.The Landing Station should be located within 100 km from the sea
shore.
II - LEVEL OF ENCRYPTION
22.The Licensee shall ensure that Bulk Encryption is not deployed by
ISPs connecting to Landing Station.
23.Individuals/Groups/Organisations are permitted to use encryption
upto 40 bit key length in the RSA algorithms or its equivalent in other
algorithms without having to obtain permission from the Telecom Authority.
However, if encryption equipments higher than this limit are to be deployed,
individuals/groups/organisations shall do so with the prior written permission
of the Telecom Authority and deposit the decryption key, split into two
parts, with the Telecom Authority.
III - MONITORING REQUIREMENTS/FACILITIES
It should be possible to effectively monitor the traffic at the Landing
Station from the national security point of view and that only the Internet
data traffic is carried. The requirements would include, but not limited
to:
24.Monitoring to ensure that only Internet data traffic is
carried through Landing Station and not voice traffic.
25.Monitoring from the security angle On-line and off-line (capture,
store and retrieve) monitoring of all classes of traffic (Internet, video,
audio etc.) specified by various attributes viz. destination, recipient,
sender, key words etc.
26.Good quality intrusion detection system to ensure that the landing
station (link) does not become a launch pad for attacking sites within
India.
27.Agencies authorized by the Government should be able to monitor all
types of traffic passed through the landing terminals, including data,
FAX, speech, video and Multi-media etc., both in interactive and non-interactive
modes.
28.The monitoring should be possible on the basis of key words/key expressions/addresses
(IP address or e-mail address) of initiating or terminating subscribers.
29.It should be possible to scan through entire traffic passing through
the gateway and filter the traffic as per the key words/key expressions
and addresses defined by the security agencies. Filtered traffic should
be stored in the memory/directory provided for the security agencies, which
have defined the monitoring requirement. Before storing the monitored information,
it should be segregated and stored in the directory in different files.
The filtered information must be decoded and stored in such a way that
direct hard copy of FAX and data or audio/video tapes of the speech/video
recording could be produced. Log of recorded information for each agency
must be created in the directory of the agency concerned displaying the
details like date and time of recording, number of record etc.
30.Each of the security agencies should be provided with a specified
dedicated space/memory/directory/storage in the Monitoring Centre computer
31.It should be possible for the monitoring agencies to access the monitoring
center computer through PSTN line, ISDN line or dedicated lines (Cable
pair or Optical link). Adequate number of all types of interfaces may be
provided at the monitoring center to facilitate remote accessing for the
security agencies.
32.Remote Accessing/Log-in facility for security agencies should be
through fully secured unique password. Each agency must have different
password. The access password should be re-definable (changeable) by security
agency concerned.
33.It should be possible to monitor the same traffic by more than one
security agency simulaneously. However, no agency should know the traffic
being monitored by other agencies.
34.Office space of 20 feet x 20 feet with adequate uninterrupted power
supply and air-conditioning which will be physically secured and accessible
only to the personnel authorised by Telecom Authority, shall be provided
by the licensee at each location, free of cost.
35.The installation of the monitoring equipment at the Landing Station
is to be done by the ISP licensee. After installation of the monitoring
equipment, the ISP licensee should get the same inspected by monitoring/security
agencies. The permission to operate/commission the gateway will be given
only after this.
36.The cost of the monitoring equipment including its commissioning
shall be borne by the licensee.
37.ISPs should provide the monitoring software, if specially, developed
for monitoring traffic at cable landing terminal, to the security agencies
free of cost.
38.In addition to the equipment, one local exclusive telephone line
shall be made available by the licensee at the monitoring centre, at the
cost of the licensee.
39.The cost of maintenance of the equipment and infrastructure at the
monitoring centre located at the premises of the licensee shall be borne
by the licensee.
40.The licensee shall provide all technical details of and access to
various equipment, including hardware, software and communications equipment,
when demanded by the Telecom Authority.
41.Towards the administrative cost for performing monitoring function,
a contribution of Rs. 20 (Twenty) lakhs per annum per Landing Station will
be made by the ISP licensee.
42.Training to be given to the security personnel on the equipment installed
at the Landing Station.
43.A terminal of the NMS, with full access rights will be given to the
monitoring agencies. (It is presumed that the landing station would have
a state of the art network management system which can monitor/manage the
network effectively.)
44.The Telecom Authority shall have full rights to monitor all the traffic
that goes through the Landing Station. The licensee shall ensure that the
bandwidth provider (eg: Submarine Cable company) gives the complete monitoring
rights to the Telecom Authority. Also the licensee has to get the assurance
from the bandwidth provider that it shall co-operate with the Telecom Authority
and also provide any information requested by the Telecom Authority including
but not limited to the aforesaid issue of monitoring.
45.Any attempted intrusion that comes to the notice of the licencee
should be immediately reported to the Telecom Authority.
46.A suitable monitoring equipment/system to cater to the above mentioned
user requirements should be given in the application. Complete and detailed
network diagram including the monitoring set up should be clearly indicated.
The licensee should be able to demonstrate the efficacy of the monitoring
equipment.
IV. COMMERCIAL
47.A non-refundable processing fee of Rs. 50,000 (Rupees Fifty thousand
only) per Landing Station in the form of Demand Draft payable to Pay &
Accounts Officer (Hqrs.), DOT, New Delhi , should be submitted with the
application. Applications without the processing fee will not be processed.
V. SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION
48.The guidelines and the proforma for application for setting up of
Submarine Cable Landing Stations for International Gateways for Internet
are available from ADG(LR), 10th Floor, Sanchar Bhavan, New
Delhi, between 1500 hrs 1700 hrs. on any working day and in the web site
dotindia.com.
Fifteen (15) copies of the application alongwith all annexures may be submitted
to ADG(LR), 10th Floor, Sanchar Bhavan, New Delhi-110001.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS
DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Application for setting up of Submarine Cable Landing Station for
International Gateway for Internet
(Note: Please read the Guidelines and General Information
carefully before filling up this form. The Application form should contain
complete information on each and every point. Additional sheets may be
added, if required. Incomplete application or application with conditional
compliance may be summarily rejected. Fifteen (15) copies of the application,
alongwith Annexures, may be submitted to ADG (LR), 10th Floor,
Sanchar Bhavan, New Delhi-110 001.)
I GENERAL INFORMATION
1. Name of the Company
2. ISP licence No:
Service Area
3. Complete Postal Address with Telephone / fax nos./e-mail address
Corporate Office ...........................
Registered Office ...........................
4. Address for correspondence with telephone / fax nos./e-mail
address
5. Name of authorised contact person, designation and telephone
/ fax nos./e-mail address
6.Resolution of Board of Directors / other proof that the person signing
the application is authorised signatory (Enclose copy of resolution)
7.Percentage of foreign equity in the company.
(Total Foreign equity participation(s), if any upto the extent of 49%,
including NRI equity both repatriable and non-repatriable is allowed. Complete
break-up of 100% of the equity must be given).
8.Enclose certified copies of the approval/clearance from Govt. of India
for foreign equity.
9. No. of Landing Stations proposed to set up:
10. Processing fee: A non-refundable processing of Rs. 50,000
Per Landing Station in the form of Demand Draft payable to Pay & Accounts
officer(Hqrs), DOT, New Delhi to be submitted with the application.
Details of the processing fee:
Demand draft no
.
Date
.
Bank drawn
.
Amount
.
II. DETAILS OF SUBMARINE CABLE LANDING STATIONS FOR INTERNATIONAL
GATEWAY FOR INTERNET
(Note: If applying for more than one Landing Station, please furnish
information required under this Section, separate for each of the Landing
Station.)
11.Location Details
12.Name of the Submarine (Optical Fibre) Cable
13.Terminal Landing Stations
14.Total Fibre Capacity
15.Landing stations en-route
16.Fibre pair configuration:
No of fibres:
Capacity(bitrate)of each fibre
Routing of each fibre
17..Repeater configuration
No of repeaters
Location of repeaters
18.Technology
No of repeaters
Location of repeaters
19.Terminal equipment:
(A list of all terminal station equipment including network diagram
to be provided)
20.Test and Monitoring equipment
A list of all test equipment and monitoring Facilities
21.System manufacturer
Details of subsystem contractors:
22.Ownership:
Shareholders in the cablesystem (in descending order) with
percent share
23Network Ownership:
List of all operators having acquired capacity on system(in
descending order)
24.Facility of security monitoring:
Licensee to provide full details
25.Landing station owners (Countrywise)
26.Details of services that would be provided
27.Approximate cost of the Landing station
28.Complete and detailed networking diagram Including monitoring set-up
29.Details of equipment to be used Including specifications, make, data
sheets, model etc.
30.Details of International Connectivity to International Internet Backbone
Service Provider.
31. Any other relevant details.
III CERTIFICATES/UNDERTAKING
(i) We hereby certify that we have carefully read the guidelines and
general information on Setting up of Submarine Cable Landing Stations
for International Gateway for Internet. We fully comply with the terms
and conditions therein.
(ii) We also undertake to sign any Agreement with Government of India
in this connection.
(iii) We understand that all matters relating to the application or
permission/licence if granted to us will be subject to jurisdiction of
courts in Delhi / New Delhi only.
(iv) We understand that our application for operating Landing Station
in India is subject to security clearance by Government of India.
(v) We would willingly provide all technical details of and access to
various equipment, including hardware, software and communications equipment,
to monitoring agencies as and when demanded by the Telecom Authority.
(vi) We understand that if at any time any information furnished by
us for obtaining the permission/licence is found incorrect, our application
shall be liable to be rejected, processing fee forfeited and permission
granted on the basis of this application shall be withdrawn and the ISP
licence agreement terminated.
(vii) We understand that the permission to set up Landing Station is
subject to other clearances/permissions that are required as per the laws
of the land and it will be the responsibility of the licencee/company to
obtain these clearances/permissions.
(ix) We understand that the Government (Licensor) reserves the right
to make changes in the conditions under which this permission/licence is
granted.
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