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State Wide Area Network in short SWAN or NICNET will provide connectivity of 2mbps up to the block level. It is also envisaged that SWANs will have base stations to enable wireless connectivity beyond block level.
The Government approved the Scheme for establishing State Wide Area Networks (SWANs) across the country to create a secure close user group (CUG) government network for the purpose of delivering G2G and G2C services. The project is being implemented as a central sector scheme with Rs. 2005 Crores as Grant-in-aid from Department of Information Technology and balance fund from the State Plan fund under Additional Central Assistance (ACA) allocation.
The main features of the SWAN scheme under the NEGP are
- One Point of Presence at each State/ District/ Block Headquarter
- Bandwidth capacity ( ≥ 2 Mbps for each link)
- Gateway to NICNET at State/UT headquarter PoP for Central Services
- Connectivity to Data Centre and Disaster Recovery Centre
- Network Performance Audit
