Middle East

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Middle East Africa v6 Efforts

• Feb 2006
• Latif Ladid

Thanks to Yves Poppe for his excellent work in
Africa Dir. IP Strategy Teleglobe
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IPv6 Forum Chapters MEA (3)
Morocco
UAE
UAE
Nigeria
Bangladesh
under formation
under formation
Uganda, Kenia, South Africa
Uganda, Kenia, South Africa
Uganda, Kenia, South Africa
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Political Goodwill
Itidal Hasoon
Co-chair
MEA IPv6 Task Force
United Arab
Emirates Feb
2001 Mar 2005
Crown Prince Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum
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Political Goodwill
Adel Gaaloul
Chair
Tunisian IPv6 Task Force
Tunisia April 2004
Minister of Communications
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Political Goodwill
Baher Esmat
Chair
Egyptian IPv6 Task Force
Egypt Sep 2004
Minister of Communications Dr. Tarek Kamel
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Political Goodwill
Adiel A. Akplogan CEO
AfriNIC Ltd
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Political Goodwill
Dr. Tarek Kamel
Honorary Chair
MEA IPv6 Task Force
M E A IPv6 Task Force
Co-Chairs

AFRICA May 2005
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International subsea Cable capacity
SAT3/WASC/SAFE is the major subsea artery
circling the continent design capacity of 120gb
on SAT3 The missing link has been the African
Eastcoast. This will be
solved with EASSy EASSy will connect into
Seamewe4 SAS-1 will connect Port Sudan and Jeddah
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EASSy the missing link
Currently US200 million confirmed from 26
investors including Teleglobe
8840 km 2 fiber pair collapsed ring Design
capacity 640Gb RFS Q2 2007 See
http//eassy.org/
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Regional terrestrial cables systems

• Comesa Comtel project
• 21 national telecom operators
• Comafrica Com-7 project
• SADC SRII project

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Easier via satellite?

• Canadas IDRC recent studies indicate
• Prohibitions on VSAT hamper the roll out of
  telecom infrastructure, and high license
  fees make VSAT inaccessible for
  most of the smaller institutions
  which comprise 90 of the private and
  non- governmental sector in
  Africa.
• Paren report IP bandwidth in Africa up to
  50 times more
  expensive than in America

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Internet in Africa

• Healthy growth in percentage terms

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Internet in Africa

• Healthy growth in absolute terms

Internet bandwidth connected to African locations
across international borders Data as of mid 2005
Top  overseas  connectivity
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Fast growth in number of internet users
Source ITU updated nov 2005
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Internet exchanges in Africa
An increasing number of internet exchanges is
essential to the growth of the internet in Africa
and to prepare the continent for the upcoming IP
convergence Too much African content is hosted
outside the continent. IXs would be ideal
locations for initial deployment and support of
both IPv4 and IPv6
Source nsrc status june 2005
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Africa goes mobile
67 million mobile phones
31 million fixed line phones
Mobile and fixed subscribers per 100 inhabitants
source ITU
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Africa started on the path to 3G!
Source GSMA number of WCDMA connections Note
that ITU estimates 67 million mobile phone users
for Africa by end 2005 up from 61.2 million year
before
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Africas routes to WLANs

• Wi-fi?
• Knysna, S.A. Africa's first Municipal Wi-Fi
  Broadband Network offers VoIP and Internet Access
  (allAfrica.com nov 7th)
• Wifinder (see http//www.wifinder.com/ ) lists
  African wi-fi hotspots for Egypt, Ghana, Morocco,
  Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia
• WiMax?
• ZTE to install a 3 city Wi-Max for Angolas
  Mundostartel
• Alvarion to install Wi-max in Kinshasa
• Telkom SA trial Wi-Max
• Intel, is expanding to Nigeria and Kenya to beef
  up its African business and hopes WiMax wireless
  technology will be launched commercially on the
  continent this year.

Etc, etc..
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The IPv6 factor

• Toward IP converged telecommunications
• First opportunity for upgrade to a new and
  improved protocol version and address scheme
  since 01/1983
• Prerequisite to make IP Convergence and related
  service and revenue opportunities a reality.
• Inflexion point in the evolution of
  telecommunications
• Early mover advantage in the foodchain.
• IP Governance was major issue at recent WSIS.

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What does IPv6 bring to the table?

• Neighbour discovery
• Ad-Hoc networking
• Home networks
• Plug and play
• Auto configuration
• Permanent addresses
• Identity (CLID)
• Traceability (RFID)
• Sensors and monitoring

• Solves address shortage
• Restores p2p
• Mobility
• Better spectrum utilization
• Better battery life!
• Security
• Ipsec mandatory
• Multicast

ADSL, cable, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max provide the
always-on
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What drives IP Convergence?

• Application domains
• Mobile IP and 3G
• Voice, radio, TV over IP
• Grid, Infiniband
• Massive multiplayer games
• RFID, control and sensor networks
• Microsoft
• Critical mass of
• digital communicating end-user devices
• high speed always on access
• National policies
• Research and Education networks
• National Defense
• National/regional policies and economic weight

Disruptive on most existing carrier business
models
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Should Africa start to move now?

• Yes!
• IP convergence will impacts many aspects of human
  activities and practically all industries
• Periods of rapid change give a chance to leapfrog
  to new technologies and close development and
  economic gaps.
• Transition to IPv6 is one of the essential
  ingredients to reap the economic benefits of this
  new converged world.
• The continent started the transition already
• The Research and Education Community and some
  progressive carriers show the way

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Egypts RE Community will be ready

• September 26th
• Juniper announces that MCIT (Egyptian Ministry of
  Communication and Information Technology) has
  selected them to build a nationwide IPv6 network
  for the EUN and National Research Centers.

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African RE Community

• Virtual University Concept
• Ideal in very distributed geographies
  such as Africa or Canada
• Dependent on quality end to end
  telecommunications
• Perfect use of RE networks
• AFUNET initiative should consider
  dual stack IPv4/IPv6 networking
  from the start
• AFUNET will connect to their IPv4/IPv6 enabled
  counterparts Géant, Internet2, APAN

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v6 Trial Networks
Khawarizmi-v6
Morocco
UAE
UAE
Nigeria
Bangladesh
under formation
Uganda, Kenia, South Africa
Uganda, Kenia, South Africa
Uganda, Kenia, South Africa
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Khawarizmi and 6Mandela projects

• The Khawarizmi concept was first presented at the
  Egyptian IPv6 Summit in May 2005 and suggested to
  expand it to Africa with 6Mandela
• The main idea was
• Negotiate consensus and approval of
  carriers/ISPs involved, this under the auspices
  of national and regional IPv6 fora, with support
  of national Ministries of Information
  Technologies
• Set up a budget for the acquisition of tunnel
  brokers where required
• Start with a core of two, preferably three
  countries to demonstrate ease of feasibility and
  trigger a domino effect.
• Consider some applications (i.a. mobile IPv6 push
  service )

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M6BONE
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Tunnelbroker IPv6 connectivity in the Arab World
as catalyst for
Khawarizmi project
Other Tier 1 IPV6 networks
Teleglobe IPV4 network
Teleglobe IPV6 network
Teleglobe IPV4 router(s)
Teleglobe 6PE router(s)
IPV6 over IPV4 tunnels
Planned connectivity to
Yemen Telecom (PTC)
KACST
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Path to IPv6 Teleglobe case study

• Major points of consideration
• Speed of transition to pervasive IPv6? major
  unknown
• Need for a positive customer IPv6 experience.
• Customer exposure to IPv6 from nil to advanced.
• Approach minimizing investment and operational
  risk
• Quality native peering with the IPv6 world using
  dedicated routers at multiple sites in
  North-America, Europe and Asia.
• MPLS transport through the core
• Customer access
• Teleglobe provided IPv6 over IPv4 Hexago tunnel
  broker using TSP (Tunnel Set-up Protocol) with
  AAA
• Native IPv6 access to Teleglobe Cisco 6PE enabled
  dual-stack access routers.