Redundancy is a foundational principle of internet resilience, and IXPs provide both physical and logical redundancy. Redundancy refers to the existence of multiple, independent pathways and systems that can take over in case one or more components fail.
In 2020-21 India had too few a number of IXPs, which leads to vulnerability in respect of internet resilience. There were then only about 24 IXP locations (TRAI 2021), or 0.17 IXP per 10 million population.
Increased investments in and a more aggressive growth of IXPs would lead to enhanced affordability and improved resilience/reliability, which are so important for achieving the status of digital economy superpower.
Read more about India’s IPv6 adoption and IXP landscape in the Pulse Country Report and Pulse IXP Tracker.