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June - 2009 - issue > Editor's Desk
Beyond the Crash
Pradeep Shankar
created to provide the Lok Sabha election trends and results.
The Election Commission website had crashed because they “had not anticipated so many hits”. Apparently they were only prepared for 2,800 hits per second and got 3 lakh hits per
second resulting in “complete breakdown of the server.” The National Informatics Centre (NIC) had budgeted for 80.64 billion hits in eight hours on the basis of 2,800 hits per second but with 3 lakh hits per second, it received 8.64 trillion hits. Even heavy-traffic websites like Google did not get as many hits.
If one reads between these numbers we get a sense of the ‘Internet savvy’ Indian. Despite the Indian consumer being ‘bandwidth hungry’, if one looks at the broadband penetration
it’s nothing but disappointing numbers. The number of new broadband line additions is growing at a slow pace. A research by Pyramid India’s broadband sector (residential and business users) boast nearly 8.8 million users by the end of this year, hit 12.9 million by the end of next year, and reach 17.7 million at
the end of 2011 — a total that would still leave India with a broadband penetration rate of just 7 percent of all households and business premises, and just 1.5 percent of the total Indian population.
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