IPv6: Forecasts and Trends

What Should be the Best Time for IPv6 Global IP and VPN Services Thai Telecom Forum 2008 24-25 JULY 2008 Zwicky Cheung Assistant Director IP Product Development

Agenda
IPv6 Drivers
Considerations for IPv6
What affects the timing for IPv6?
Global IP and VPN Services

Tata Communications Overview Global IP and VPN Services

Tata Group
125-year old largest private sector group
$28.8 billion revenues (2006-2007)
~3.2% of India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
289,500 Employees
Conglomerate comprising 98 operating companies
Brief History of Tata Communications
2002: Tata Group acquired VSNL
2004: VSNL International launched
2005: VSNL acquired Tyco Global Network, becoming one of the world’s largest providers of submarine cable bandwidth
2006: VSNL acquired Teleglobe
Feb-2008: VSNL, VSNL International, Teleglobe unite as Tata Communications
Tata Group Financial Stability & IT Capabilities Tata Communications Feb-2008 (VSNL, VSNLI & TG)

Tata Communications Leadership Landscape Global IP and VPN Services
State-of-the-art Infrastructure
200,000 route km global network
300 points of presence (PoPs)
20+ terabit submarine capacity
~1M sq. feet of data center space
Customers
1,500 global carriers
600 mobile operators
“ Fortune 1000” of India
5,000+ SMEs in India
500,000 Internet and broadband subs
Industry Leader
#1 global wholesale voice
#1 global submarine cable capacity
#1 intnl. long distance services in India
#1 enterprise data services in India
#1 Internet services in India

Global IP and VPN Services Round the World Global IP Infrastructure

End-Jan-2008 Cable Cuts in Middle East
Endorsement of the round the globe IP network during SMW4 and FLAG cable cut
We showed that we have fast response to SMW4 & FLAG cable cut in end-Jan-08 to restore IP backbone capacity for Middle East and India
Global IP and VPN Services Most Impacted Countries Network Restored Note: Reference from Renesys

New Cables Build Out Global IP and VPN Services TGN EurAsia: Tata Communications joint build with Telecom Egypt for an express route cable TGN - Intra Asia Cable India to Europe Network Diversity: Combining SMW-4, IMEWE, TGN-EA, SMW-3 will provide Tata Communications four routes from India to Europe and increase South Asia – Middle East – Europe diversity IMEWE design as announced in February 2008

AS6453 Network IPv6 Availability Global IP and VPN Services

India IP Network Coverage (AS 4755) Global IP and VPN Services
120+ POP locations across India.
3-tier Hierarchical topology for better management.
IPv4 and IPv6 access in Tier 1 and tier 2 cities
16 cities are IPv6 ready now: Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad Ernakulam, Lucknow, Jaipur, Jailandhar, Gurgaon, Surat, Bhopal and Colmbatore

Support IPv6 connectivity in Key India event - SANOG 10 & ICANN India in New Delhi Global IP and VPN Services
Local tunnel IP address : 169.223.1.254
IPv6 address block : 2001:DF9::1/32
AS10201 AS24555 AS4755 AS 6453 and IPv6 Internet Mumbai Hong Kong Mumbai Tunnel Termination Router (LNS) IPv6oIP Tunnel Delhi Tata Comm Customer

Support customers moving towards IPv6 implementations – multiple IPv6 connectivity options Global IP and VPN Services Offering: Dual stack, tunneling & tunnel broker access. IPv6 AAAA DNS look up service. customer prefixes /48 or larger size. RFC 2858 IPv6 BGP-4 as EGP. Coverage : Dual stack IPv4/IPv6 in 65+ locations globally IPs Resources: IPv6 « slash 32’s » from ARIN, APNIC, RIPE and Afrinic AS 6453 & AS 4755

IPv6 Drivers Global IP and VPN Services

Internet Users and IP Convergence
Asia is fast growing region with huge growth ahead
Internet users grow ~350% (2000 – 2007)
Highest number of Internet users.
Penetration rate is only 13.7% (increase from 10.5% last year)
~6.4 million devices in FY2007 grows to ~13.8 million devices in FY 2008, +114.8% (Source: Blackberry web site)
Global IP and VPN Services Source: www.internetworldstats.com

IPv6 Drivers
Technology Drivers
Solve IP addresses shortage
Business Drivers

Projected lifetime of IPv4 addresses Global IP and VPN Services Source: Geoff Huston ”IPv4 Address Report” ( http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/ ), as of 14-Jul-2008 Projected IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 18-Jan-2011 Projected RIR Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 14-Dec-2011

IPv6 Drivers
Technology Drivers
Solve IP addresses shortage
Restores p2p communication
Quality of Service
Mobility
Much easier roaming
Better spectrum utilization
Better battery life!
Security
IPsec mandatory
Multicast
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
Business Drivers
Opportunities for new applications
Application function as expected
Mobile Internet
Network based security
Video broadcast, e-learning
Internet connected
Personalization
Windows Vista is IPv6 ready

IPv6 Applications Global IP and VPN Services IPv6 address - A
There is growing demand for p2p mobile applications in Asia
Potential sensor device application to capture data from remote locations.
IPv6 address - B IPv6 e.g. Interactive Game Data IPv6 Usage Data Storage Sensor Device Sensor Device

Considerations for IPv6 Global IP and VPN Services

Considerations for IPv6 Global IP and VPN Services Cost Benefits Timing Hardware Operational Business New Applications Quality of Service Security

What affects the timing for IPv6? Global IP and VPN Services

What Affects the Timing for IPv6?
Whether we should go for IPv6 is not a question, the question is when we should move to IPv6
Global IP and VPN Services Deadline Lead-time Right time?

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?
40+ of our major customers connect in both IPv4 and IPv6
IPv6 support is becoming a must to win a bid
Of around 60 major RFQ’s for IP transit answered both in 2006 and 2007, about 50 included questions on IPv6 support, roughly half gave points to IPv6 support in their response evaluation and 10 had IPv6 support as mandatory or exclusion factor if not compliant.
Next step: stimulate growth of the IPv6 component of the overall IP traffic.

Thank you Global IP and VPN Services

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