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Wlink Celebrates 25 Years Anniversary

WorldLink Celebrates 25 Years Anniversary!

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16th September 2020, Kathmandu

Nepal’s leading ISP company WorldLink has completed its 25 years of operation. The company had started its service in 1995 AD as a simple email service provider but now it has become one of the biggest IsP companies in Nepal. Worldlink’s Internet service has reached 73 districts of the country which is a huge accomplishment.

Dilip Agrawal, the then student studying in the USA wanted to talk to his parents via the internet which encouraged him to establish today’s ISP giant in Nepal. WorldLink today covers 43 percent of the total internet bandwidth used in Nepal. Mr. Agarwal considers that having every one in three internet consumers as their valued user is a matter of pride. Currently, the company has provided employment opportunities to more than 3500 people.

Worldlink’s Users:

According to the director of Worldlink communications, Amit Agrawal, there are 21 lakhs users and 4 lakhs and 25 thousand connections. Not only that, there are around 10,000 WIfi spots in public spaces that provide free connections to the general public.

Similarly, the company has also provided NET TV along with the internet. Currently there are 1 lakh and 84 thousand consumers of IPTV.

Along with that, Worldlink is the fist service provider in Nepal to use IPv6 in the year 2018 AD. The company also received the ICT Award 2019 provided by the government of Nepal. Similarly, one of the pathbreaking contributions of the company is also expanding the internet broadband services to the Karnali region of the country.

Expanding services to Rural Areas:

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary, Worldlink has announced via a virtual press conference that it is going to expand its services to the rural areas too. The company’s CEO, Keshav Nepal announced this amazing news. Considering the pressure on the network, the decision has been taken.

IPO to general Public:

Worldlink is also planning to issue an IPO to the general public in the coming days. After all the procedures to convert the company into public limited, the shares will be made available to the public, This will take some time.”We have to make some preparations for the IPO. It takes at least three years. What is the market like then? Accordingly, we can issue shares. But we are definitely preparing for that in the meantime, ”he said while speaking at a webinar organized on the occasion of the anniversary.

We congratulate Worldlink communications on its 25th anniversary ! We hope to see the company grow bigger and better in the coming days.

Meanwhile, are you happy with the services provided by the company? Let us know in the comment section below.

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Worldlink Enables New Protocol IPv6 For Its Customers

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22nd August 2020, Kathmandu
WorldLink is enabling IPv6 for its all customers by this fiscal year-end making Internet experience better.
All devices connected on the Internet require one unique address called Internet Protocol (IP) address-to communicate with each other. The address is allocated by an American institution named Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to all Internet Service Providers in the world.
There are two versions of IP one is named version 4 (v4) and another version 6 (v6). The Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) that is still currently in use, has only 4.3 billion unique public addresses and hence it got exhausted on 15th April 2011. As a result, most of the Internet service providers in the world are relying on Network Address Translation (NAT) technique using private addressing to alleviate the public IPv4 shortage problem.
The Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the recent version of the protocol that now allows unique routable public address assignments for every device in the world on the connected networks for communication.
However, with IPv6 the count of IP addresses is so huge that it will never run out of the addresses and it can be uniquely assigned to every device in the World that will connect to the Internet. With IPv6 address use, Internet access will also become slightly better than IPv4 as the NAT technique is not required.
At present IPv6 content is enabled by major content providers like Google, Facebook, etc. which is heavily used by all Internet users. Also in the device ecosystem, auto preference is done by end device browsers application for v6 than v4 when both are enabled.

WorldLink is the first ISP in Nepal to enable IPv6 on its network dated July 2019 and is privileged to be one of the few service providers of the World to do so. This development ensures simpler but robust networking and makes remote troubleshooting an easier task for the service provider helping customers to get superior Internet service.

While we are stepping into the IoT age this preparedness will help to implement IoT products on a large scale in the near future. This development has resulted in 1.55 lakh customers out of a total of 4 lakh WorldLink customers already on IPv6 network, carrying roughly 20% (165Gbps) of the Internet traffic currently delivered on IPv6 on Worldlink network.
As per the data published by Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC), Google and Facebook currently around 26% of the network in the world is on IPv6. In Nepal, around 11% of the Internet network is IPv6 which is largely driven by WorldLink’s IPv6 enablement.
Not only that helps to make the Internet faster and scalable, but this will also help to make the Internet secure by assisting government and law enforcement bodies to easily and accurately track-down illegal activities and abuse on the Internet, which is quite difficult in IPv4 with NAT enabled.