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View from the IPv6 deployment front line: Early mover advantage confirmed

Yves Poppe

• Dir. Bus. Dev. & Strategy IP

APAN Hanoi, august 2010 Collaboration session

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Tata Group Overview

140-year old largest private sector group $62.5 billion in revenues, 61% of business from outside of India 350,000 employees Listed as 11th Most Respected Company in the World by Forbes Conglomerate comprising 97 operating companies Owns global Tier 1 IP network on one of world’s most advanced and largest submarine cable network

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Tata Communications as IPv6 traiblazer – Teleglobe provides the first NGI intercontinental connection in 1995 for the Brussels G7 summit. – A member of the Canarie Policy Board, Teleglobe promotes the experimentation of IPv6 and the 6bone/6TAP initiative – Teleglobe hosts the first IPv6 node for Surfnet (Dutch R&E network) connection to the 6TAP located at STARTAP in Chicago. – Teleglobe facilitates the world ’s first intercontinental native IPv6 connection in 1998 between CRC (Communication Research Centre) in Ottawa and Berkom (Deutsche Telekom R&D subsidiary) in Berlin. – Teleglobe becomes a founding member

• f the IPv6 forum in 1999.

– Teleglobe presents its original IPv6 plans at the March 2000 Telluride IPv6 Summit. – 2003: Teleglobe starts an IPv6 pilot – January 2004: service introduction

6 TAP PVP STARTAP PVP ESnet STARTAP ABILENE Globeinternet IPv6 TLA (2)

Teleglobe ATM Network R&E Customers

V6 Customers V6 Peers DNS V4/V6 GW IPSEC PKI Teleglobe IPv6 Services (1)

• IPVN (over MPLS-Enabled Globeinternet)
• Transit
• Native Implementation

(1) Dependent upon CIOS 12.08 Deployment (2) NA, EUR & AP ABILENE PVP 6TAP

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The promises of IPv6

Solves address shortage Restores p2p communication Mobility – Much easier roaming – Better spectrum utilization – Better battery life! Security – IPsec mandatory Multicast Better QoS (flow labels) Auto configuration – Mobile Ad-Hoc networking – Mobile networks – Sensor networks – Plug and Play networks Permanent addresses – Identity (CLID) – Traceability (RFID) – Addressability! – IP address based billing

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AS6453 as Global IP network: Circling the Globe

Explosive growth

–OC48/192 MPLS backbone –60+% year over year traffic growth –Largely a courtesy of User generated video Content , Youtube, Facebook etc. and more and more pervasive broadband access,

IP Network at a glance

–Approx 1800 Gbps of Backbone Capacity –Closing in on 1000 Petabits of traffic per month; –Totally dual stack IPv4 and IPv6

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117 location across India. 3-tier Hierarchical topology for better management. IPv6 dual stack edge 6PE with MPLS core AS4755 India IP Backbone

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Did our early emphasis on IPv6 pay off?

Visibility, early mover advantage and differentiator in the marketplace

– If carrier A offers IPv4 only and carrier B offers both IPv4 and IPv6, other criteria being similar, who would a tier 2 ISP carrier base go for? – 50+ of our major customers were connected in both IPv4 and IPv6 in 2008 already.

With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses becoming imminent, our early lead pays off : IPv6 support is now becoming a must to win major bids.

– Of around 60 major RFQ’s for IP transit responded to in fiscal 2009, close to all included questions about IPv6 support, roughly two third gave points to IPv6 support in their response evaluation and more than a quarter had IPv6 support as mandatory or exclusion factor if not compliant.. – New customers or customer renewals are offered dual stack by default.

Next step: stimulate growth of the IPv6 component of the overall IP traffic.

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Proportion of customers AS’es connecting in dual stack to AS6453

Data at year end

Year end data

32% dual stack as

• f end july 2010

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3235 active IPv6 BGP entries as of august 10th 2010

http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/index.html

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Compared to a year ago

carriers/ISP’s

– tier1’s are ready, tier2’s increasingly connect in dual stack – Eyeball networks like free.net in France have demonstrated the viability of IPv6 all the way to the end-user. Sprint, AT&T, Comcast initiatives in the USA.

Content providers and CDN’s

– Google progressively made its content IPv6 accessible including Youtube – Yahoo, Facebook and coming. The tail end of the Alexa 500 will follow.. – Limelight and Netflix lead. CDN space still lagging however.

equipment and software providers

– Parity between IPv4 and IPv6 support is much closer – Some effort needed on CPE and .load balancing as well as some monitoring and debugging tools.

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IPV6 in the Canadian Resarch and Education community

Canadian Federal Government

– An Industry – Government Pv6 Task Group concluded its work and tabled its recommendations and a final report earlier this year. See details under http://isacc.ca/isacc/english/task_groups/?ipv6

Canadian R&E Networks and University campuses

– In June, Canarie set up twenty member IPv6 Task Force to assist in the IPv6 deployment

• n provincial R&E network level and campus level if and where necessary given the

varying stages of deployment. A number of showcase institutes will be chosen.. – The annual Canadian Higher Education IT Conference (CANHEIT) addressed the need to accelerate IPv6 deployment. A small number of Universities are leading the pack and could act as showcase and become a reference for the others..

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What to expect of the next year?

The year of IPv6 enabled content The year of IPv6 ready CPE’s The year Mobile Broadband Internet comes of age The year Corporate IT people wake up.

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In conclusion

Some time left but not much to deploy IPv6 as part of the upgrade cycle. Procrastinators could phase an unwelcome peak in capex. Content providers will be the first ones to suffer in case of discontinuity.. The short term motivation in industry is the looming IPv4 address exhaustion as well as some government mandates. Time has come for enterprise networks to start moving also. The Mobile Internet, broadband connectivity and the hyperconnected world will unleash a flood of new applications and revenue streams. There will be winners and losers. IPv6 will just be a footnote. Make sure to mandate IPv6 support in your procurement process for hardware, software and internet service providers. Train your people and do not forget the back-office.

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« These days all competitive advantages are

• fleeting. So the smartest companies are

learning to create new ones – again and again and again »

Robert D. Hof , Business Week,