Introduction
NREN (Nepal) connected on 24 March at 45 Mbps
Impact
PingER at SLAC monitors www.ntc.net.np, prime.edu.np and www.ioe.edu.np. Of these only www.ntc.net.np had data fort over 50% of the last 100 days. Looking at the traceroute for this host it appears to not be connected via TEIN3. Traceroutes for the other hosts indicate they do not use TEIN3 rather using TeleGlobe. This was confirmed by Gaurab Raj Upadhaya of NREN who pointed out that www.ntc.net.np won't be connected to TEIN3 at all. It's the website of a commercial ISP (the telco), and there is no possibility that they will connect.. The smokeping PingER plot from SLAC to www.ntc.edu.np is shown below:
So we could compare the above measurements with those of a host connected to TEIN3 we added www.nren.net.np as a "Beacon" to the list of PingER monitored hosts on 4/17/2010. The traceroute from SLAC to it identified it as being connected to TEIN3.