What is difference between POP and IG? Suggestions welcom :)

[BlackScorpion]

What is difference between ISP node/point of presence (POP) and the International Gateway (IG)?

Dooes the International Gateway in India come under the service area of ISP?

If it comes under the service area of ISP, is it not the responsibility of the ISP to maintain these gateways?

According to TRAI -

“An ‘always-on' data connection that is able to support interactive services including Internet access and has the capability of the minimum download speed of 256 kilo bits per second (kbps) to an individual subscriber from the Point Of Presence (POP) of the service provider intending to provide Broadband service where multiple such individual Broadband connections are aggregated and the subscriber is able to access these interactive services including the Internet through this POP

Is it not necessary to amend the technical part of TRAI's definition of broadband as-
"minimum download speed of 256 kbps to an individual subscriber from the International Gateway (IG) of the service provider"

ISP's should be made to provide a mimimum defined speed from the International gateway's .

since I am still a n00b Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong..

Suggestions welcome.

 

[essbebe]

Start
RUN
type
cmd
type
tracert broadbandforum.co
See path from your computer ==>>POP ==>>to IG ==>IBF

Para two:
Check speed from Brisbane, Mumbai , NewYork servers.
The D/L U/L speed should be same ?
Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test