1.10.10.1 Monitoring facilities.
(a) At each - International Gateway location and / or ISP node with a router/switch having an outbound capacity of 2 Mbps or more:
(i) Every international gateway location and/or the ISP node with a router/switch having a capacity of 2 Mbps or more shall be equipped with a monitroing Centre at the cost of the ISP. Suitable appropriate monitoring system is to be set up be ISPs carrying Internet telephony traffic through their Internet gateways and /or ISP nodes at their own
cost, as per the requirement of the security agencies and the cost of maintenance of the monitoring equipment and infrastructure at the monitroing centre located at the premises of the licensee shall be borne by the ISP.
(ii). Office space of 10 feet x 10 feet with adequate uniterrupted power supply and air-conditioning which will be physically secured and accesible only to the monitoring agencies will have to be provided by the ISP at each location, free of cost.
(iii). In addition to the equipment, one local exclusive telephone line is to be made available by the ISP at the monitoring centre, the cost to be borne by the ISPs.
(iv). The cost of maintenance of the equipment and infrastructure mentioned above at monitoring centre located at the premises of the ISP is to be borne by the ISP.
Each router/switch of the ISP should be connected by the LAN operating at the same speed as the router/switch, the monitoring equipment will be connected to this network.
(vi). For a national ISP or an ISP having multiple nodes/point of presence, if it is possible to monitor the traffic in all the Routers/switches from a central location, a central monitoring centre would be acceptable. However, in such a case, the ISP would, at the outset, be able to demonstrate to the Telecom Authority that all routers / switches are accessible from the central monitoring centre. Moreover, the ISPs would have to inform the Telecom Authority of every change that takes place in their topology /configuration, and demonstrate that all routers/switches continue to be accessible from the central monitoring centre. The decision of Telecom Authority will be final on the issue.
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