TRAI floats consultation paper on data centre regulation

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), on Thursday, launched a session paper on regulatory framework for selling knowledge economic system by way of institution of knowledge centres, content material supply networks, and interconnect exchanges in india and sought feedback from stakeholders to know progress prospects for knowledge centres in India.

It has raised some points together with the financial/monetary/infrastructure/different challenges being confronted in setting-up a knowledge centre enterprise within the nation, what measures are required for accelerating progress of knowledge centres in India, and the way knowledge centre operators and world gamers may be incentivised for attracting potential investments in India.

“The Indian knowledge centre market measurement is projected to succeed in $1.5 billion by 2022, rising at a CAGR of 11.4 per cent, and is predicted to succeed in round $5 billion by 2025. The market is primarily pushed by rising web penetration, elevated cloud adoption, authorities’s digitisation initiatives, and the push in direction of knowledge localisation,” TRAI stated within the paper.

Points

The world goes digital at a tempo quicker than anticipated. Partly, that is pushed by the pandemic-induced world lockdown, which has resulted in a knowledge surge arising out of elevated digital social interactions and on-line transactions, it stated.

TRAI has additionally sought feedback on points corresponding to if there are any particular elements of the catastrophe restoration commonplace in respect of knowledge centres that must be addressed, whether or not trusted supply procurement needs to be mandated for knowledge centre gear and whether or not they need to be mandated to have safety certifications based mostly on third-party audits.

The authority has requested for feedback from the stakeholders by January 13, 2022 and counter-comments, if any by January 27.