GlobalASEAN IPv6 Initiatives and Deployments

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Global/ASEAN IPv6 Initiatives and Deployments
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass Director,
National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence
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Contents

• Introduction
• Worldwide initiatives
• Malaysias Status
• Recommendation
• Summary

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Introduction

• Depletion of address space with IPv4 and rapid
  development of online and mobile technology
  necessitated the need for a new communication
  protocol
• Faster and more efficient networks are needed to
  address todays demands for information access
  and communication
• Large address space, plug and play, and better
  security are some of the advantages of IPv6 over
  IPV4
• IPv6 has the potential to boost the future growth
  of Malaysian ICT and Internet business sector as
  it can launch a host of new services and products
• With IPv6, Malaysia once again has the
  opportunity to be one of the global ICT leaders
  and as thus, be one of the first to reap its
  benefits

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Worldwide initiative

• Major Hardware and software vendors have IPv6
  capabilities
• CISCO, JUNIPER, HEXAGO,
• MICROSOFT, ORACLE, LINUX, BSD,
• ISPs ready to provide IPv6 connectivity
• TELEGLOBE, NTT, VERIO,
• Home appliances
• SONY, TOSHIBA, CANON, NOKIA-JAPAN..

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• ASIA
• Japan
• Japan is very aggressive in the realization of
  IPv6
• Sees IPv6 as an opportunity for all industries to
  achieve greater ROI in line with the evolution of
  the internet at 2010
• National Strategy for the adoption of IPv6 called
  u-Japan (Ubiquitous Japan) in Sept 2000
• Provided support for academic research through
  the WIDE project, development of new IPv6 based
  applications, and tax incentives for
  organizations that deploy IPv6
• Japans investment in IPv6 is US10 million to
  US13 million a year
• Estimates that the move to IPv6 will create a
  US1.55 trillion technology market by 2010

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• Taiwan
• Has announced a US1 billion budget for their
  e-Taiwan (e-Society, e-Commerce, e-Government and
  e-Transportation) program
• e-Taiwan initiative plans to have 6 million
  Broadband end-users by 2008 using IPv6
• Taiwans government networks will be IPv6 ready
  by the end of 2007

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• China
• Has instituted a full adoption policy of IPv6 by
  creating the China Next Generation Internet
  (CNGI) budgeted over 1.4 billion Yuan (US170
  million) provided by the NDRC (National
  Development Reform Commission) to support six
  next generation networks
• CNGI project will be by far the largest
  commercial backbone ever-built from scratch for a
  single technology to become the glue for all
  services in China for fixed line, mobile, GRID
  and research
• Chinese officials restated that they want the
  Chinese internet to be completely IPv6 in time
  for the 2008 Olympics

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives
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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• India
• Declared by Minister of Communication and
  IT
• Convergence of technologies
• E-Governance
• Broadband connectivity
• Next Mobile Wireless
• National Internet exchange Indian Domain Name
• IPv6
• Security digital signature
• Media Lab Asia seamless communication to rural
  areas
• Language computing given Indias multilingual
  nature
• Outsourcing skilled manpower and RD thrust

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• The telecom sector regulator, Telecom Regulatory
  Authority of India (TRAI), has recently provided
  the government with recommendations on further
  initiatives for accelerating the growth of IPv6
  in India
• India will soon get its native IPv6 network in
  line with China's Next Generation Internet
  project
• The IPv6 Forum India has taken a step in this
  direction by signing a MoU with the China IPv6
  Council
• The IPv6 network, which will be laid at a cost of
  US 176 million, will ensure better security,
  video-on-demand services and other new features
  across devices

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• Pakistan
• The IPv6 Forum Pakistan was launched in August
  2006 by the Networkers Society of Pakistan (NSP)
  closely working with the leaders of the IPv6
  Forum
• IPv6 Forum Pakistans mission is to provide
  technical leadership and innovative thought for
  the successful integration of IPv6 into their
  networking and telecommunications infrastructure

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• South Korea
• Koreas IT839
• 8 services WiBro, DMB, home network,
  telematics, RFID, w-CDMA, terrestrial digital
  TV, VoIP
• 3 infrastructure projects USN (ubiquitous
  sensor network), DMB(Digital Multimedia
  broadcasting), BCN (Broband Converged Network),
  IPv6
• 9 new or upgraded services Next gen mobile
  comm, digital TV, home network, IT sec, next gen
  PC, embedded SW, content, telematics, intelligent
  service robot

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• As part of their IT839 strategy, South Korea
  implemented first phase pilot project of KOREAv6
  in 2005, and planned to conduct second phase
  pilot service by year 2006 to foster adoption of
  IPv6
• Has invested US83 million to support several
  national research projects KOREN (KOrea advance
  REsearch Network), KREOnet2 (Korea Research
  Environment Network 2), 6NGIX (IPv6 Next
  Generation Internet eXchange) and TEIN (Trans
  Eurasia Information Network)

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• AMERICA
• United States
• Windows operating system Vista supports both
  IPv4 and IPv6 while favoring the later
• IBM and Cisco Systems have readied their products
  for operational, large scale IPv6 deployments
• Most US companies from software developers, to
  Service Providers to Integrators gave little to
  no consideration to IPv6 until 2003 when DoD
  publicly stated its intent to migrate completely
  to IPv6 by 2011

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• The military sectors responded immediately with
  support from the German and French Ministries of
  Defence who did their homework independently and
  are now cooperating together
• DoD now requires IPv6 support in all its
  purchases
• Under the Office of Management and Budget, United
  States memo issued in August 2005, federal
  agencies must upgrade their network backbones by
  June 2008 to IPv6

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• EUROPEAN UNION
• US216 million in funds were made available to
  several research projects (6NET, GEANT, Euro6IX,
  6INIT) dedicated to developing IPv6 deployment
  experience, protocol knowledge and new
  applications
• They also brought together Universities and
  industry partners from around the world into
  various collaborative efforts
• The M6Bone, an experimental worldwide IPv6
  Multicast network is also deployed in Europe
  allowing the ISPs of the members in the European
  commission to connect with IPv6 multicast
  technology

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• Euro6IX is the largest research project up to now
  being funded by the European IST (Information
  Society Technologies) Program
• Euro6IX started in January 2002, building
  dedicated, native, IPv6 networks, involving
  National Research and Education Networks, Telcos
  and ISPs
• The involvement of the major/incumbent European
  Telcos in this project, covering also the bigger
  areas that have a higher Internet user growth
  rate, reflects the strategic importance of the
  fast and timely introduction of IPv6 in Europe

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• SOUTHEAST ASIA
• Thailand
• The JGNII-ThaiSarn (Thai Social/Scientific,
  Academic and Research Network) project is peering
  with the NSPIXP-6 in Tokyo Japan
• The home users in Thailand are already capable of
  connecting through the tunnel broker with their
  home router gateway to the IPv6 enabled internet
• The THNIC (Thailand Network Information Centre)
  has also offered IPv6 Domain Name Services since
  July 2005 and the Domain Name Registration for
  IPv6 is ready

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IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives

• Philippines
• Have set up a research group known as PREGINET
  (Philippine Research, Education and Government
  Information Network) to conduct RD activities as
  well as overseeing the deployment of IPv6
• Indonesia
• Has begun to move into their roadmap to implement
  and deploy IPv6 under its IPv6 Task Force
• Vietnam
• Has just begun venturing into IPv6 whereby the
  main focus is on the RD phase and they are
  attempting to test IPv6 based services such as
  the web, FTP and even Email

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IPv6 A Worldwide Perception

• IP infrastructures are well recognized as
  strategic business resources
• Alongside a significant need for reliability, it
  is critical to be able to scale them in order to
  meet expanding business needs and new business
  models
• Opens new markets and new business opportunities
• Further expansion of IT infrastructures and
  networks would amplify the already proven
  economic benefits of IP communications
• Increased technology adoption at national level
  creates a large internal market that can support
  and stimulate national IT innovation
• Increased global coverage provides a worldwide
  environment for commercializing IT products and
  services, with easy access to other national
  markets

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IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Most extensive IP Reach (93 Countries)
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IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Government Investments in IPv6 until year 2006 in
US dollars
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IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Total Number of Allocated IPv6 Prefixes per RIR
(Regional Internet Registry) dated 27th October
2006
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IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Distribution of IPv6 allocation by number
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IPv6 A Worldwide Perception

• The above statistics shows a clear trend of
  planned migration to IPv6 by many nations
  worldwide
• Several of the e-projects identify target years,
  anywhere between 2008 and 2011 for a complete
  migration for the entire country or at least with
  government infrastructures
• Today, Japan and EU are probably one to two years
  ahead of the US in terms of IPv6 knowledge and
  IPv6 deployment
• In the fast paced Internet Economy this gap can
  prove to be a significant advantage in building
  new markets and developing new products
• From a product and service perspective, IPv6 is
  not just an upgrade, it offers completely new
  ways to approach and solve problems
• Their leadership should be followed in order to
  capitalize early on the upcoming Internet upgrade
  
• This is the foundation upon which this Roadmap
  for Malaysia is built on

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Current IPv6 Status in Malaysia

• IPv6 is identified as one of 8 key Infrastructure
  areas under MyICMS 886 strategy
• Under the RMK-9 (2006-2010) IPv6 is highlighted
  as one of three technologies that the Ministry of
  Energy Water and Communication (MEWC) will
  priorities
• MyREN, a national research education network has
  an IPv6 dual stack deployed linking 12
  Universities and research centers

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Current IPv6 Status in Malaysia
MyREN Network Topology
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Current IPv6 Status in Malaysia

• The School of Computer Science at USM has
  migrated totally to IPv6, and Universiti Malaya
  (UM) has established a focus group to experiment
  and plan their migration to IPv6
• KTAK and MAMPU have already started their
  migration plan to implement IPv6 in their
  networks
• MCMC has successfully started implementing their
  ISP IPv6 compliance audit process
• Six among the seven ISPs have been audited for
  phase 1 of the three phases of compliance testing
  and are phase1 IPv6 compliant

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Cost Impact of Transition

• Technology costs Human factor costs
• Technology costs Planning, Transition,
  Implementation, and Operation

IPv4 to IPv6 Migration Costs
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Cost Impact of Transition

• Case study Implementing IPv6 in MEWC. The cost
  ratio for MEWC to migrate to IPv6 would probably
  work out to 80 for training of staff services
  and another 20 for hardware
• In general the cost is not high, the eventual ROI
  are clear
• The most significant cost is related to human
  resource and IPv6 expertise
• The Impact IPv6 will have on the nation can only
  eventually be measured by the aggressiveness of
  our planned IPv6 implementation, but so far, the
  signs are positive.

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Transition Considerations

• Major points
• 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
• Customer access
• IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel broker
• Dual-stack access routers

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Recommendations Guidelines

Timeline for IPv6 to be enabled for the entire
nation
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Recommendations Guidelines

Timeline for recommended plans to be executed
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Recommendations Guidelines

• Stakeholders
• MEWC
• National IPv6 Council
• NAv6
• MOSTI
• MOHE
• MCMC
• MTFSB
• MAMPU
• EPU
• MOF
• MYNIC
• MDEC
• MIDA
• MATRADE
• Research Educational Institutions, and
• Private sector Entities ISPs, Telcos, Content
  developers and Industries

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Recommendations Guidelines

• IPv6 R D areas Malaysia to focus
• Together with MYREN, NAv6 has identified two core
  areas of IPv6 R D
• 1. Mobile and 3G Applications
• Real Time Application over IPv6
• IPv6-based Security and IDS
• Quality of Service
• IPv6 Routing for Mobile and Cellular Devices
• Embedded Applications
• Multimedia Conferencing using IPv6
• 2. Generic IPv6 RD
• Transition
• IPv6 implementation on Satellite
• IPv6 over Fibre
• IPv6 Monitoring and Security

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Recommendations Guidelines

• Recommendations list
• Ensure that Malaysias IPv6 timeline is followed
  by the nation and place it on the agenda of the
  National IT Council
• Adoption of IPv6 by its agencies would serve as
  good examples to the public as well as to ISPs
  and system integrators, and would encourage them
  to follow suit in the deployment of IPv6
• Encourage and support the deployment of IPv6 in
  schools (SchoolNet) and universities as they
  represent an excellent environment for large
  scale deployments which enable the testing of
  applications such as content (audio/video)
  distribution and e-learning
• Enable the deployment of broadband on a larger
  scale and the adoption of 3/4G IP mobility which
  will open the doors for new applications and
  services in the consumer market

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Success Indicators and Contingency

• We will use the objectives stated in MyICMS 886
  as our Success Indicators, for the enabling of
  IPv6
• Malaysian ISPs to migrate to IPv6 by the end of
  2006
• All government agencies to commence migration to
  IPv6 by 2008
• IPv6 is expected to be proliferated nationwide by
  2010 and with national network support
• To achieve these objectives the stakeholders will
  have to work together, commit sufficient
  resources and abide by the time-line

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Summary

• Malaysia has targeted to be a fully IPv6-enabled
  nation by 2010
• This requires wholehearted commitment by all the
  stakeholders Government, Industry and Academia
• Timeline set by MyICMS 886 needs to be adhered to
  
• The PC and broadband markets are expected to grow
  arising from opportunities in emerging IPv6
  technology market
• IPv6 will also contribute to growth in the non-PC
  consumer electronics market, entertainment
  industry, as well as broadband and wireless
  technology in the communications industry

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Summary

• The deployment of IPv6 will enable IP-based
  devices located around the world to seamlessly
  communicate and interoperate in much more
  efficient manner and realize true end-to-end
  communication
• IPv6 is one of the key technologies for
  widespread deployment of mobile services
• IPv6 research and development in Malaysia should
  converge with 3G, and mobile research and
  development in mapping out the future NGN
• IPv6 is a profitable niche area for Malaysia to
  enter into and opens up many RD possibilities
  for the research organisations and institutions
  in the country
• IPv6 is a critical infrastructural requirement
  for the nation for a wide range of next
  generation services

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Summary

• Major Economies and industries are aware of
  benefits of IPv6 and have made substantial
  investments.
• With the world converging towards IP based
  communications we need to be proactive to invest
  now to reap for tomorrow with IPv6.
• Responsibility lies on this nation to take up the
  challenge and take leadership in developing and
  deploying technological solutions
• The change in core infrastructure requires
  supporting leadership as the full benefit can
  only be gained by complete migration to a dual
  stack environment
• These require public sector support (local and
  national) and buy-in from the private sector

IPv6 provides opportunities as great as that of
the Internet itself