VeriSign goes to Asia

[img_assist|nid=7927|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=45]In India a grandiose plan to make Internet access much quicker and safer will soon come into practice owing to a newly formed alliance of Bharti Airtel and VeriSign, focused on launching Regional Internet Resolution Site (RIRS) in the country. Having their own Internet traffic within the country, Indian online users will be able to visit .com and .net Websites with faster response time, dispensing with servers from other countries such as China or the US.

RIRS will strengthen Internet platform against security threats and disruptions, employing under sea cable cuts for these purposes. This is part of VeriSign’s strategy to expand its Internet infrastructure across 100 locations globally.

According to Mr Ken Silva, Senior Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer, VeriSign, the Regional Internet Resolution Site, the Regional Internet Resolution Site will enable operators to provide faster responses to Internet address queries, at the same time assisting VeriSign in detecting, diagnosing and isolating potential attacks on infrastructure in its initial phase.

By estimation of operating center the number of quires has already reached about 130 millions per day and is going to rise, promising to increase to over 450 million per day by 2012 and making RIRS one of the largest in the world.

With a resolution site located in an immediate vicinity to Indian users, local businesses or individual users will get faster and more effective Internet experience.

Inasmuch as one of the features of the RIRS is that it abates the impact of attacks on the Internet, its local presence enables Internet providers not only to identify an attack in its early stages, but also isolate the event analogues in its root.

VeriSign collaborates with local Indian providers assisting in isolating attacks within a network, thus preventing other parts of Internet from being affected by.

This alliance is in line with the strategy of Bharty Airtel, aiming at enlarging enterprise and small and medium business units in the country by means of jointly marketing Internet security solutions. As the partners predicted, Bharti Airtel’ revenues would total about $100 million over a 3 year period. VeriSign and Bharti for the present moment are concerned primarily in developing and customizing security solutions targeted at the banking and financial sector.

Dr Jai Menon, Director, Customer Service and Information Technology, Bharti Airtel told to Business Line about their plans focused on forming IP-based network to become a telecom company where both voice and data would move in packets, thus proving Airtel’s name and networks would be synonymous with safe and secure network

Airtel is about to be made a Registrar for .com and .net sites in India. Along with Airtel, that applies VeriSign’s solutions for its own internal network, the rival telecom player’s enterprise customers will also be able to obtain security systems offered by VerySign. What is more, the two companies will offer the list of their products and services including the VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP), iDefence and Managed Security Services.

“For digital India to be successful, one has to have end-to-end security and scalable Internet foundation,” said Mr Willaim A Roper Jr. President and CEO, VeriSign.