About AIORI

About AIORI

AIORI started as a grant-in-aid program of the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) with Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) as the executing agency and India Internet Foundation (IIFON) and Internet Society Kolkata Chapter as the implementing agency.

The program is in its second phase supported by the National Internet Exchange of India (NiXi).

The AIORI research project has two components. The first component AIORI-IMN is an Internet Measurement Network. The second component Anycast Test Bed helps in researching and building distributed edge services, currently, research on DNS deployment models is being carried out. Both components complement each other to achieve the said objectives.

ANYCAST Testbed

  • In Five Locations across INDIA
  • This is helping us measure the local interconnection availabilities and uncover the issues related to the resilient functioning of the Internet.
  • We are adding more academic institutions to host the testbed for more research initiatives to be taken up from academia.
  • This testbed gives us insights into building resilient services and researching futuristic deployment models.

AIORI Internet Measurement Network

  • Edge Measurement Devices
  • Complete Indigenous Development
  • In 100+ locations across India
  • This is helping us measure the user-level service availability and routing