Title: GlobalASEAN IPv6 Initiatives and Deployments
1Global/ASEAN IPv6 Initiatives and Deployments
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sureswaran Ramadass Director,
National Advanced IPv6 Centre of Excellence
2Contents
- Introduction
- Worldwide initiatives
- Malaysias Status
- Recommendation
- Summary
3Introduction
- 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
4Worldwide 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..
5IPv6 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
6IPv6 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
7IPv6 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
8IPv6 Worldwide Initiatives
9IPv6 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
10IPv6 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
11IPv6 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
12IPv6 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
13IPv6 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)
14IPv6 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
15IPv6 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
16IPv6 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
17IPv6 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
18IPv6 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
19IPv6 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
20IPv6 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
21IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Most extensive IP Reach (93 Countries)
22IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Government Investments in IPv6 until year 2006 in
US dollars
23IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Total Number of Allocated IPv6 Prefixes per RIR
(Regional Internet Registry) dated 27th October
2006
24IPv6 A Worldwide Perception
Distribution of IPv6 allocation by number
25IPv6 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
26Current 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
27Current IPv6 Status in Malaysia
MyREN Network Topology
28Current 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
29Cost Impact of Transition
- Technology costs Human factor costs
- Technology costs Planning, Transition,
Implementation, and Operation
IPv4 to IPv6 Migration Costs
30Cost 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.
31Transition 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
32Recommendations Guidelines
Timeline for IPv6 to be enabled for the entire
nation
33Recommendations Guidelines
Timeline for recommended plans to be executed
34Recommendations 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
35Recommendations 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
36Recommendations 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
37Success 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
38Summary
- 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
39Summary
- 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
40Summary
- 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