[SANOG] Telecom requirements for local Internet access in India and US based Citrix solutions

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Yeah. The other thing is, Internet access especially to non work sites can 
be through a separate network (accessible after you minimize the rdp 
session) that is based in india with IPs provisioned based on business need.


On February 10, 2015 10:44:12 PM "DurgaPrasad - DatasoftComnet" 
<dp at datasoftcomnet.com> wrote:

> I am not aware of any rule that mandates the need to provide local internet 
> access if the company policy doesn’t allow that. I have lot of customers 
> who provide no internet access at all.
>
> If the senior managers do need internet, they can use their laptops to 
> browse by minimising the RDP screen. (at least that is what they do when 
> the remote US side does not allow them to browse through the tunnel using 
> the remote US gateways).
>
> Also - I am not aware of any rule that mandates that Indian browsing should 
> happen only through Indian gateways. I will find out once more since I 
> might have missed it.
>
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> Regards
>
> Durga Prasad
>
> +919849111010
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> From: Stefan [mailto:netfortius at gmail.com]
> Sent: 10 February 2015 22:17
> To: dp at datasoftcomnet.com
> Cc: sanog at sanog.org
> Subject: Re: [SANOG] Telecom requirements for local Internet access in 
> India and US based Citrix solutions
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> I am not sure how else to explain. I was referenced to the Indian Telegraph 
> Act 1885, and amendments to such brought forth by the India Department of 
> Telecommunications, in time, which, in what I am interested in, allegedly 
> require local Internet access for all employees in India. This is not 
> possible if using thin clients hosted in US-based DCs, designed to access 
> the Internet in the US, unless those specific to India hosted virtual 
> desktops being configured to "go back" to India (via some creative routing 
> and/or proxy pacs, with proxy servers hosted in India) to comply with the 
> alleged requirement. If the latter is true, then the bad performance I was 
> alluding to: India employee accessing virtual desktop in the US DC, which 
> then sends them back to India for Internet access.
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> ***Stefan
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> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:50 PM, <dp at datasoftcomnet.com> wrote:
>
> Hello Stefan,
>
> I  can help you on the technical advice.
>
> Many of our clients access servers in the US on a continuous basis. You get 
> excellent bandwidth and uptime in India, particularly in the cities.
>
> However I did not understand the India-US-india round trip part.
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> Regards DP
>
> 9849111010.
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> Sent from my phone. Please excuse brevity and typos if any.
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> -------- Original message 9/02/2015 23:57 (GMT+05:30)
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> To: sanog at sanog.org
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> Subject: [SANOG] Telecom requirements for local Internet access in India 
> and US based Citrix solutions
>
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> Hi, everyone,
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>
>
> I was wondering if someone could point me (or share direct, personal 
> experience) to some information referencing local Internet access (per 
> legal requirements for doing business) in India, if in need to utilize 
> Citrix or VMWare solutions (virtual desktop) hosted in US-based Data 
> Centers, at present with corresponding US Internet access. A redirection of 
> such traffic from India -to-> US virtual desktop -to-> India local Internet 
> access is definitely a technical possibility, but I assume that due to the 
> latency would be practically useless.
>
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> NOTE: due to internal security requirements, the "embedded" browser from 
> some versions of thin client is not an option.
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> Thank you,
>
> ***Stefan
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