As the recent reports say, Nepal’s World Link is considering US’ Juniper’s high-performance networking solutions to address the network issues locally and tackle concerns of Nepal’s growing internet consumer base.

Through this partnership, the company is keen on transforming into a high-performance 100GbE infrastructure along with future-proofing flexibility and scalability.

“Our partnership with Juniper Networks plays a key role in the steady increase of fixed broadband penetration across a developing country like Nepal,” says Samit Jana, CTO, World Link.

With this, World Link falls in the ambit of the world’s leading ISPs rolling out 100GbE deployments.

The Nepali ISP is looking at the single-platform MX series as a major player towards ensuring sustained growth, cost-efficiency and streamlined network management in its future endeavors to provide seamless connectivity.

Over the years, the company has largely simplified the local network complexities providing easy internet access to thousands of Nepali citizens.

The company reports double growth of fixed broadband internet users, not just in urban areas of the country, but also across more than 70 towns and smaller cities.

“Juniper’s high-performing technologies, along with its detailed after-sales service management, have enabled World Link to continuously deliver a stable and secure network, while ensuring that the growth of internet connectivity is made accessible at an affordable rate,” adds Samit.

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The government is coming up with the ‘net neutrality’ policy to be considered while issuing licenses to local telecom operators and Internet Service Providers (ISP).

The new policy upon implementation will regulate the way ISPs deliver services with regard to speed-based discrimination and pricing of internet traffic.

This decision makes Nepal Telecom Authority (NTA) second such authority in South Asia after India’s Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) to formulate such a policy that enforces regulation for fairness in internet service delivery.

Nepal is consulting TRAI for finalization of the policy.

Why Net Neutrality in Nepal?

Net neutrality is the policy that mandates ISPs to ensure fairness in all the services they deliver across web-based platforms.

Though the concept of net neutrality has been under discussion across the globe, Nepal Government is coming up with such legal framework for the first time in its history. Till date, Nepal has no legal rules protecting the existing net neutrality process.

At the start of 2018, NTA opined that ‘net neutrality’ is not a serious concern for Nepal, however changed its decision after some local ISPs reported violation of net neutrality creating the need for the same.

Nepal’s move towards such policy gains significance in view of the growing demand for the same, globally.

On a global scale, TRAI and European Regulators of Electronic Communications have signed a deal for exchange of information on net neutrality, and the United States has also recently reviewed protection of its net neutrality policy upon demands from the activists and local legislatures.

NTA will soon make the regulation public, NTA Spokesperson Min Prasad Aryal said in a statement.

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