IPv6 Deployment: Business Cases

and Development Options IPv6 Forum Grenada

Brent Mc Intosh IPv6 Evangelist

Agenda

• What is IPv6? , I am sure we all know this by

now.

• The Problem and Positives.

• The Opportunity for deployment.

• Where are we now?

There are only this many IPv6 addresses left:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,548,011,352

Projected IPv6 Exhaustion Date: 5,395,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 AD

What is IPv6

• IPv6 is short for "Internet Protocol Version 6". IPv6 is the Internet's next-generation protocol, designed to replace the current Internet Protocol, IP Version 4.

• World IPv6 Day ( 0.60% of Internet Population)

• World IPv6 Launch ( 1.29% preferred IPv6)

Today we are well over 2% of Internet traffic being IPv6.

OK so what's the Problem? :

Only 4.3 Billion addresses?

IPv4 :Success and Failure

• 4.3 Billion addresses. 86% Usable

• IANA Unallocated Address Pool Exhaustion: 03-Feb-2011

• ARIN 0.68 /8s remaining

• LACNIC 0.21 /8s

• APNIC 0.82 /8s

• AFRINIC 3.0 /8s

• RIPE 0.97 /8s

• Reservation of either /10 or 2x /11s

• Minimum allocation /24 Max /24s

IPv6 Business Case: The Problem

• IPv4 Depletion/Exhaustion

• Routing Efficiency ( End-to-End IP Addressability)

• NAT is “Life Support” system for IPv4

• LSN/CGN/NAT444 ( not the best for some online

Applications)

• What’s Broken: Play station/Xbox, Hulu, sling catcher,

VoIP, ALG, SSL, encryption, bit torrent, LimeWire,

Tunneling and many others.

Business Case Drivers: Mobile

and NGN Services

• Smartphone Users Worldwide will Total 1.75 Billion in 2014

• ~ 4.55 billion people worldwide to use a mobile phone in 2014.

• 4G/LTE adoption and deployment in the Region

• Explosive Growth in Smartphone/Tablet market.

• IANA has exhausted their IPv4 Public Pool in 2011, last /8 was allocated to the RIRs.

• IOT

IPv6 Business Case: Drivers • Mobile Broadband 4G/LTE ( /64 GUA Per Handset)

• IOT/IOE ( more M2M connectivity)

• Increase demand for true End-to-End addressability ( No

NAT)

• Increase in End-User applications.

• Many large Hosting Providers, CDNs and ISPs are already

on IPv6 (http://www.worldipv6launch.org/participants/)

• Two-Thirds of the world still without Internet Access

• IPv6 Deployment is well on the way.

• Focus on SDN/NFV and other upcoming Data

center/Hosting technology.

IPv6 : OH MY What Space

We Have!!

IPv6 Deployment: The

Caribbean Situation

IPv6 Deployment: The Caribbean Situation : Based on Cisco 6labs

IPv6 Adoption Performance Indicators ( CISCO 6LABs)

• Overall deployment ratio: average of other metrics and is

used to measure the deployment of IPv6 in a scale between

0% (no IPv6 at all) and 100% (everything is IPv6)

(IPv6-enabled transit AS, IPv6 content and IPv6 users)

• Relative Deployment Index: compare countries to the

currently most advanced IPv6 deployment (which country is

graded 10). The color on the world map is based on this

index

IPv6 Deployment Progress

based on Cisco 6labs

http://6lab.cisco.com

Reasons to Adopt: Its Going to Happen anyway!!!

IPv6 Allocations in 2013

IPv6 Allocations in 2014

IPv6 In the Caribbean:TT

IPv6 In the Caribbean: GD

Source: https://www.vyncke.org/ipv6status/

IPv6 GUA Advertisements

IPv6 Progress: We have a good Start

ISP/MSOs: • Columbus Communications

• Columbus Curacao and Grenada

• Digicel Trinidad

• 360 Comms

Enterprise Transit : • Customer in Curacao ( Finance sector) and some root-server

peering.

Content:

• A few Caribbean Dual-stacked Websites

• A few Caribbean E-mail Servers.

• http://6lab.cisco.com/index.php The place to monitor IPv6 adoption

IPv6 Websites: Caribbean

IPv6 GUA Advertisements: BGP

FLOW CURACAO

• show route aspath-regex " .*23520 52233"

2800:530::/32 *[BGP/170] 16:30:31, MED 0,

DIGICEL TT

• show route aspath-regex " .*27800"

2803:1500::/32 *[BGP/170] 16:32:21, MED 0, localpref 100

FLOW GRENADA

• show route aspath-regex " .*46650" table inet6.0

2001:1808::/32 *[BGP/170] 16:35:26, MED 0, localpref 100

IPv6 In the Caribbean How to get connected

• HE.NET 6to4 Tunnel (www.tunnelbroker.net)

• Freenet6 (GoGo6)

• Native IPv6 access, ask your provider when it will be

available.

• Local Tunnel Services (6brent)

• Sixxs.net

Major CDNs and Social

sites are deploying IPv6

Netflix: 2406:da00:ff00::3210:f5ee

Linkedin: 2620:109:c006:102::6cae:281

Akamai: 2600:1403:2:392::22d9

Google: 2607:f8b0:4004:808::1011

Ping -6 to Netflix & Linkedin

• C:\Users\brent.mcintosh>ping -6 www.netflix.com -n 1

Pinging www.us-east-1.prodaa.netflix.com [2406:da00:ff00::1715:6122] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 2406:da00:ff00::1715:6122: time=86ms

C:\Users\brent.mcintosh>ping www.linkedin.com -n 1

Pinging pop-lva1-alpha.www.linkedin.com [2620:109:c006:102::6cae:281] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 2620:109:c006:102::6cae:281: time=79ms

IXPs dual-stacked

IXPs with Dual-stacked Infrastructure.

• AMS-IX-Caribbean, (cw.ams-ix.net dual-stacked))

• GREX www.ixp.gd ( dual-stacked)

• DANIX

• SLIX

• TTIX http://ix.tt

• OCIX

Root Servers Caribbean • L-root-servers.net (IPv4: 199.7.83.42

IPv6: 2001:500:3::42)

ASN 20144

Grenada/Puerto Rico and Columbia - IPv6/IPv4 Global instance

• Operator:ICANN

• J-root (IPv4: 192.58.128.30 IPv6: 2001:503:C27::2:30

• Willemstad Curacao ( AMS-IX Caribbean)

• ASN:26415

• Operator: Verisign

• IPv4 Local instance

• F-root Server.net (IPv4: 192.5.5.241 IPv6: 2001:500:2f::f )

ASN 3557

Haiti IPv4-only Global instance , Caracas IPv6-only global Instance

Operator: Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.

IPv6 Achievements in the Caribbean

2010-2014

General Interest in IPv6

Skills

Opportunity: Connectivity and

deployment

• Transit Providers Available

• IPv6 Integration in CPEs

• IPv6 Support in core network equipment.

• Training and Professional services available.

• More ISPs need to start deploying and testing from

Core to Access.

• Multi-stakeholder groups need to be involved.

Opportunity: Experience,

Education and Knowledge. • IPv6 Forum Certified ISPs ( Transit/access) Columbus

Curacao and Grenada

• IPv6forum Certified Engineers: Trinidad, Grenada and Barbados.

• Regional IPv6 Forums ( Grenada and Cuba only for now)

• Knowledge and development support

• More Regional Forums and integration of Technology Groups. ( for LACNIC Caribbean & CaribNOG)

CARIBNOG, LACNIC CARIBBEAN, IPv6Forum Chapters, ISOC.

E-mail:brent@ipv6forum.gd