Book a railway ticket in a flash
Posted on: 13/Sep/2014 11:22:24 AM
Don’t be surprised that your computer system did not ‘choke’ as usual when booking an e-ticket during tatkal time 10 am to noon on IRCTC website of late.
NGeT has enhanced the IRCTC’s booking capacity to 7,200 tickets per minute, conferring good luck on many of the 1, 20,000 users who try booking e-tickets concurrently every minute.
At least one lakh people get their tickets booked between 10am and 11am, the first hour of the tatkal time (10 am to noon) after the NGeT launch. Compare that stat with the earlier 2,000 tickets per minute and 40,000 concurrent users in the old system and it shows IRCTC has made great strides in the last one year. However, progress did not come cheap.
A senior IRCTC official placed in Delhi revealed to DC that the NGET, which supports 7,200 bookings per minute would last for another four years, following which, they would go for further upgrade.
Pointing out that the maximum traffic was during the first hour of the tatkal hour, the IRCTC bureaucrat said; “We realised that opening of the home page consumed maximum time. So we just eliminated banners, ads and other features that slowed down the opening, which is the new IRCTC Lite version.” IRCTC has a centralised data center in New Delhi from where it manages every transaction made worldwide on its website.
