National Information Network


National information network also known as National internet and Iranian intranet is an ongoing project to develop a secure and stable infrastructure network in Iran.
Supreme Council of Cyberspace defines National Information Network as "a Network based on the Internet Protocol with switches and routers and data centers which allows for data requests to avoid being routed outside of the country and provides secure and private intranet networks."
The idea of a national intranet was developed in Ministry of Information and Communication Technology in 2005 and project was started in 2013.
Based on Fifth Economic Development Plan of Iran, The National Information Network with a bandwidth currently standing at 4,000 gigabytes per second, will allow access to e-government services, digital services inside the country, affordable access to high-speed communications, as well as access to domestic content and services across the country.
The project consists of three phases and will include formation of an economy of datacenters, as well as increase of the quality of infrastructure services for businesses.
Iranian government has allocated about $200 million for development of NIN infrastructures alongside NIN e-content.

Structures

The National Information Network's two main parts are:
IR-NIN Applications & services include:
Private part
Public part
Privacy
Through their phone numbers and social ID number everyone is identified before getting access to internet.

Deployment

Iranian government fully employed National information network November 15 through 27 2019.

Government Service Bus

Corporations are required to use only Iranian data centers and register their IP address.