With a view to increase the speed and bandwidth for Internet and NICNET access in the North East states, a Network Operation Centre (NOC) was recently commissioned in NIC Assam State Centre at Guwahati. The NOC will act as a Internet and WAN gateway for the NE states of Sikkim, Tripura, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya and Assam. Each of the state capital are connected through a 2 Mbps leased line from BSNL which is terminated at the 34 Mb STM system installed at the NOC. The 34 Mb STM, commissioned by BSNL has a 4 Mbps Guwahati-Delhi leased circuit and a 2 Mbps Guwahati-Hyderabad LC. With the setting up of the NOC, the network speed and the access to NICNET has improved drastically thus improving the quality of Internet access through NIC for the users. A proposal to set-up a Data Centre is in the final stage of implementation at the same premises by NIC to house all mission critical data.