Iran seeks to boost capacity of 'intranet'
Iran plans to boost the capacity of country's national internet
(intranet) up to 1,200 gigabyte per second by the end of the
current Iranian calendar year (March 20, 2014), Managing director
of Iran's Telecommunication Infrastructure Company Mahmoud Khosravi
said.
The country's intranet capacity currently stands at 550-gigabyte
per second, the ISNA News Agency reported.
"The international bandwidth is also expected to reach 200 Gbps by
the end of the current year," he said, adding that the current
figure is 110 Gbps.
He went on to say that the country's VOIP system currently has the
capacity to connect 20,000 calls simultaneously.
Iran has one of the biggest Internet filters of any country in the
world, preventing normal Iranians from accessing countless sites on
the official grounds they are offensive or criminal.
Sites expressing views considered anti-government are also
routinely blocked.
Iranians commonly overcome the government filter by using virtual
private network (VPN) software that makes the computer appear as if
it is based in another country.
The report however concluded that only 21 per cent of Iranians have
access to the Internet, ranking it 111th in the world, behind
countries like Tuvalu and Jordan.