Union Minister for Railways and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw remarked that designing and developing an indigenous 2.4 tbps router is really a momentous achievement for the country. He was speaking while inaugurating the fastest indigenously developed router by Bengaluru-based Nivetti Systems.
The minister said that a core router is very important for Digital India and it is a matter of pride that such a complex system has been designed, developed and manufactured in India.
Vaishnaw further said that India has emerged as a nation for providing services. India will continue to grow on services, but in parallel, India will also make efforts to become a product and a manufacturing nation, he said.
“Innovators will have an environment where they can get 10x results for the efforts and make a big difference for the country and also export globally,” said Vaishnaw. He added that today's manufacturing is where there are lots of software, innovation and combination of brain power in the hardware.
Nivetti Systems is a secure networking and cyber security products and solutions company focussed on catering to secure and trustworthy digital infrastructure needs of India and global markets. The company was co-founded by Raghuveer B. K, its CEO and MD; Manish Bajpai, COO and Manjul Khandelwal, CTO. The founders have more than two decades of global experience and expertise in networking and cyber security domain.
The company has developed a secure IP/MPLS router of 2.4 tbps capacity and is powered by India’s first and only fully indigenous Secure Network Operating System, Nivetti NiOSTM.
Nivetti NiOS has been security evaluated by DRDO SAG & STQC and is the only private company to be successfully security evaluated by DRDO-SAG. All the company's products are designed in-house and manufactured in India. Nivetti Solutions include entire portfolio of products required for rural broadband, campus networks, smart and safe cities and Defence. Nivetti IP/MPLS routers and switches have been deployed in various large networks in the country such as the Power Grid, Indian Navy, CDoT, DRDO and a host of other private enterprises.
Besides the router, the company has also developed data centre leaf switch – 24 x 10G, 4x25G , 2x100G Ethernet Switch and also Nivetti HawkSecure a fully indigenous, unique Network Threat Detection and response cyber security platform using advanced AI and ML algorithms along with a unique tripwire based policy framework.