Academia Sinica Campus Network Reports

1. AAccaaddeemmiiaa SSiinniiccaa
CCaammppuuss NNeettwwoorrkk RReeppoorrttss
Academia Sinica Computing Centre

2. Native Links
CCuurrrreenntt AAcchhiieevveemmeennttss
Link Type
– Domestic: TANet, TANet2, HiNet
– Oversea: APAN-JP, NSPIXP-6
Tunnel Links
– Viagenie(CA), Cable and Wireless(FR), Cisco(US),
Hurricane Electronic(US), ISI-LAP(US), vBNS(US), LavaNet(US),
T-NET(HU), TILAB(IT), GBLX(JP), XS4ALL(NL), Euro6IX(ES),
INET-TH(TH), UK6X(UK), CERN(CH).
NSPIXP-6 peering
– IIJ(AS 2497), WIDE(AS 2500), NTT-VERIO(AS 2914),
PTOP(AS 4677), NTT-ECL(AS 4697), ODN(AS 4725),
Opentransit(AS 5511), FDBC(AS 10013), Dream Train Internet(AS
4691), IMNet(AS 2513)
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4. Peering ssttaattuuss iinn TTaaiiwwaann

5. NSPIXP-66 ppeeeerriinngg ssttaattuuss ((ccoonntt..))

6. CCuurrrreenntt SSeerrvviicceess
Native Link
– Focus in ASNET Campus Network and Backbone
construction with other critical IPv6 network
Tunnel Broker, http://tb.ipv6.ascc.net/
– For anyone who is interesting in IPv6
6to4 relay router, 6to4.ipv6.ascc.net
– For ASNET only in currently
BGP4+ AS path viewer, http://bgp.ipv6.ascc.net/
– Provide Graphical description in ASN path
MRLG, http://mrlg.ipv6.ascc.net/
– Provide management and debugging
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7. IIPPvv66 MMiiggrraattiioonn aanndd PPrroommoottiioonn
ffoorr
LLooccaall IInntteerrnneett SSeerrvviiccee PPrroovviiddeerrss

8. The obstacles ooff IIPPvv66 ddeeppoollyymmeenntt
No profit in commercial domain
No attractive contents
The equipment’s support is not sufficient
– Large cost of equipment upgrade to IPv6-
enabled
– Vender’s policy
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9. Who sshhoouulldd pprroovviiddee IIPPvv66 sseerrvviiccee
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Education and Research Networks
– ASNet, TANet, TANet2, NBEN.
Government Network
– GSN
Commercial Networks
IInntteerrnneett SSeerrvviiccee PPrroovviiddeerrss
((IISSPPss))

10. HHooww ttoo hheellpp IISSPP ttoo sseerrvviiccee IIPPvv66
nneettwwoorrkk ccoonnnneeccttiioonn??

11. AA TTeessttbbeedd ttoo pprroovviiddee
IIPPvv66 nneettwwoorrkk ooppeerraattiioonn
Academia Sinica can provide
– 24x7x365 non-interuptable power supply
– High quality air conditioning, fire detection and
suppressing system
– Rack space for equipment if needed
– Well-constructed IPv6 backbone
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PPrroovviiddee aann eennvviirroonnmmeenntt ffoorr IISSPP ttoo
ccoonnnneecctteedd aanndd ggaaiinniinngg tthhee eexxppeerriieennccee ooff
IIPPvv66 ooppeerraattiioonn

12. IIPPvv66 AAddddrreessss AAllllooccaattiioonn
Academia Sinica can assign the IPv6
addresses
– 6Bone pTLA: 3FFE:4001::/32
– APNIC sTLA : 2001:0C08::/32
FFoorr IISSPPss tthhaatt hhaavvee nnoott ggeett tthhee IIPPvv66
aaddddrreesssseess yyeett ttoo pprroocceeeedd ttoo ooppeerraattee
tthhee IIPPvv66 nneettwwoorrkk
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13. IIPPvv66 TTrraannssiittiioonn sseerrvviiccee
Academia Sinica now have
– 13 Native IPv6 peers
– 22 Tunnel IPv6 peers
– Bandwidth in domestic: 120Mb
– 100Mb to APAN,
100Mb to NSPIXP-6
WWee ccaann pprroovviiddee ttrraannssiitt ffoorr tthhee IISSPP wwhhoo
ppaarrttiicciippaatteess iinn tthhiiss pprroojjeecctt
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14. IIPPvv66 DDiiggiittaall AArrcchhiivveess
Academia Sinica can provide rich digital archives
– Balanced Corpus of Modern Chinese, Tagged Corpus
of Early Mandarin Chinese, Formosan Language
Archive, Open Digital Archive environment, The Fish
Database of Taiwan, The Taiwan Malacofauna
Database, Archiving Historical Map and Remote
Sensing Imagery of Modern China.
PPrroovviiddee vvaarriioouuss ddiiggiittaall aarrcchhiivveess ffoorr
IIPPvv66 eennvviirroonnmmeenntt
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