It has been informed to the Exchange by our VSAT Service Providers – HCL Comnet Ltd & Bharti Airtel Ltd. that there will be ‘Sun Outage’ (a satellite-related issue) every day from September 22nd, 2009 to October 9th, 2009 (both days inclusive). During this period, some of the Trading and Clearing members using VSAT for connectivity may face network related problems and/or loss of connectivity with the Exchange. In case of disconnection, the VSAT users may re log-in after interval of 5-10 minutes
Members are requested to kindly note that connectivity with the Exchange may be lost during above sun outage at different locations at different time depending upon the Service Provider i.e. HCL or Bharti and the type of VSAT i.e. KU Band or Extended C Band.
Summary of Sun Outage Timings for different Service Providers and VSAT types are provided in the below table.
Service Provider
VSAT Type
Satellite
Start Time
End Time
HCL Comnet
KU Band
INSAT 3-A
10:43 IST
11:09 IST
HCL Comnet
Ext-C Band
INSAT 3-B
11:31 IST
11:57 IST
Bharti Airtel
Ext-C Band
INSAT 3-E
13:40 IST
14:03 IST
The members who are using other mode of connectivity i.e. Internet, Leased Line, MPLS etc will not get impacted by the Sun-outage.
There would be no extension in the Trading Session timings during the above period.
Members are requested to kindly take a note of the above.
For and on behalf of National Multi-Commodity Exchange of India Limited
Neeraj Gupta Vice President – Information Technology
