Eng. Sami H. O. Salih

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IPv6 Deployment in SUDAN
Eng. Sami H. O. Salih President of SDv6TF
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Contents

• Part (I) About Sudan
• Part (II) Telecommunication Sector Overview
• Part (III) Telecom Sector Assessment

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About Sudan
One Million Square Miles, 8.5 of the land area
of Africa, 25 Stat. Population 39.1 million
(2008)
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Telecommunications Progress

• 1859 Telecommunications introduced in Sudan
• (1st telegraph link between Cairo Sawaken),
• 18711873 Telegraph line reached Khartoum (Small
  unit for Post
• Telegraph).
• 1892/1903 First Telephone exchange in Sudan
  (Eldaba Khartoum).
• 1910 -1971 The service was run by a government
  body known as Posts
• Telegraphs (PT)
• 1971- 1978 Telecommunication was separated from
  the Post service and run as
• a governmental Department.
• 1978 93 Sudan Telecommunications Public Corp,
  (STPC).

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Telecommunications Progress (Cont )

• 1993 94 Privatization of Telecommunication
  Sector.
• 1994-2001 National Telecommunication Council
• 2001, National Telecomm. Corporation (NTC) formed
  under
• Telecommunication Act 2001.
• 1994, Sudan Telecom Co. (SUDATEL) started as an
  Operator Service provider.
• 1997, license issued to a cellular service
  provider Sudanese Mobile Telephone Co.
  (MOBITEL).
• 1997, First ISP, Sudanese Internet Service Co.
  (Sudanet).
• 2001, First Pre-paid service, Ashraaf
  International (Ashraaf com).
• 2003, license issued to the second mobile
  operator (Areeba).
• 2005, license issued to the second fixed operator
  (Canar).
• 2006, Sudatel launch its 3G - UMTS Network
  (Sudani).

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Internet progress
1996, Internet was introduced in Sudan by the
Sudan Internet Services Co. Ltd. Sudanet with
128Kbps Bandwidth capacity. In early 1998, the
Sudan Telecom Co. Ltd. Sudatel introduced its
Internet Service in the country as a value added
service to its basic fixed telephony services
with 265Kbps Bandwidth capacity. In Nov 1999,
Sudatel became the only pop in Sudan with 2Mbps
from EMIX. Sudatel opened its Internet service
provisioning to other potential service
providers, the enterprise and universities
sectors using its existing data communication
infrastructure.
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Legislation Maturity
1974, Telecommunications Law. 2000, National
Telecom Corporation Bill National Telecom Council
Bill 1994 Telecom Act. 1974 2002, A new Telecom.
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National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC)
http//ntc.gov.sd
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NTC Objectives

• Promote and regulate the telecommunication sector
  so as to conform to development and
  globalization.
• Provide the appropriate environment favourable to
  promotion of telecommunication services and the
  encouragement of investment in this sector.
• Ensure and diffuse free competition and recruit
  competent personnel in the field of
  telecommunications.
• Ensure connectivity among licensed
  telecommunication public networks.

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Market Structure
Coverage 160 City Technology GPSR,
HSPA Subscribers 5903529
??????? 68/129 ???? ????????. ??????? GSM /
UMTS ??? ????????? 2657639
Total Subscribers 12689251
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Coverage
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Subscribers Growth
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Bandwidth and backbone
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IP addresses Statistics (Source AfriNIC)
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IPv6 Deployment Obstacles

• Current Allocation and Registration Model
• Hide of the IPv4 Exhaustion
• Hide of the IPv4 Expansion Techniques Failures
  (i.e. NAT, CIDR, Dynamic Allocation)
• Lack of IPv6 Experience

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Allocation and Registration Model
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• IP Allocation is not depending on Supply/Demand
  manner, and obviously its not a market for
  competition. Its Regulatory trueborn duties, and
  must distribute fairly regard to the actual
  demand.
• The current model work fine, but the global view
  is to involve ITU and the administration on
  countries into these processes in order to
  effectively benefit from their support as well as
  to keep the administration aware about internet
  addressing schema.
• The modifications on the model have made lightly
  as possible to facilitate what indicates in
  (3.1.2.) no new entities or procedures just
  updates on the definitions and insertion of the
  ITU in the model.

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Hide of the IPv4 Exhaustion
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Expansion Techniques Failures
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Lack of IPv6 Experience
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Sudan Experience Toward IPv6
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Activities

• 1st IPv6 Workshop 24June, 2010
• As a side event of AREGNET Meeting.

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Activities

• 2nd IPv6 Workshop 1 August, 2010
• Publish the Sudanese IPv6 Migration Plan.
• Form the SDv6TF.

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Activities

• 3rd IPv6 Workshop 1-4 November, 2010
• 2nd IPv6 Training.
• Internet Governances day.

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Activities

• 4th IPv6 Workshop 27 October, 2011
• Evaluation of the IPv6 Deployment in Sudan on 10
  Major Information Network Operator

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National IPv6 Training Center
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Achievements in IPv6 Deployment

• Develop of the National IPv6 Migration Plan
  (2011-2015)
• Formation of the SDv6TF (more than 400 member)
• Organize Three Workshops
• Collaborate with NAv6 in Continuous Training
  Program (300 Participant in 2011)
• Participate on IPv6 Events (ITU, AfriNIC)

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IPv6 Training Calendar
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Development in IPv6 Assignment
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