Provisioning of IT Infrastructure by Custodians of Customs Stations as per "Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations, 2009"- reg.

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.... Notification No. 26/2009-Customs(N.T.) dated 17^th March 2009 bringing into effect the "Handling of Cargo in Customs Areas Regulations 2009" (referred in short as 'Regulations') and Circulars Nos. 13/2009-Customs dated 23^rd March 2009 and No. 21/2009-Customs dated 4^th August 2009. 2. The above Circulars issued by the CBEC prescribe that the networking, communication equipments, Uninterrupted Power Supply System, Computers/Personal Computers/Thin Clients, servers, printers and other computer peripherals as specified by the Directorate General of Systems shall also be provided by the custodians. It has further been provided that these instructions apply to all the Custodians of ports, airports, Inland Container Depots (ICDs), Conta....

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....ftware required for use with the thin clients may separately be obtained from Directorate of Systems & Data Management. 3.1.4 Alternatively, the Custodian can provide PCs, with Pentium Core 2 Duo/1 GB RAM/ 40 GB HDD and Windows XP/ Vista and Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers, in place of thin clients. In such cases CD drive / USB Drive (for storage functions) must be disabled. OS hardening /Password policy /Access control must be implemented in compliance with CBEC's Information Security Policy. Besides these PCs should be updated with latest antivirus Signatures. This is important since any violation would imply that the connectivity to the data center would be disallowed. 3.1.5 The Custodian would be required to have ma....

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....rnet Connectivity locally at their locations. For Customs officials users working at these locations, controlled access for the VPN users will be managed by TCS limited. Connectivity through the Multi-Protocol Label Switched (MPLS) networks of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL)/Tata Communications Limited (TCL): In this case the custodians can connect with the MPLS Cloud of either BSNL or TCL. The last mile /local cross Connect of BSNL/TCL would be terminated on the CBEC's switch in the Public Zone. CBEC has no objections to any other service provider being engaged by the partner subject to agreement between the service provider and TCL who are CBEC's data center providers. In both the options listed above, CBEC will only work as a f....