ipv6 case studies and national plans of action
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IPv6 Case studies and National Plans of Action. Hisham Ibrahim IPv6 Program Manager, AFRINIC AFRINIC meetin g , Mauritius 27 November 2012 . Do NOT wait for others. Page 2. IPv6 allocation in Africa. Source : 6 spots (AFRINIC IPv6 Portal). Page 3. IPv6 allocation in Africa (SD). - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
IPv6Case studies and National Plans
of ActionHisham Ibrahim
IPv6 Program Manager, AFRINIC AFRINIC meeting, Mauritius
27 November 2012
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Do NOT wait for others
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IPv6 allocation in Africa
Source : 6 spots (AFRINIC IPv6 Portal)
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IPv6 allocation in Africa (SD)
Source : 6 spots (AFRINIC IPv6 Portal)
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Governments & Regulators
The Senegalese government. Approach adopted by MICOMTTIC: Establishing a National Committee for IPv6 transition in 2011.The Multi stakeholder committee has members from • The Ministry • Operators • Public and Private Companies • UniversitiesWork Plan • The Ministry conducted an inventory survey in July 2011 • The committee established a draft transition plan by
October 2011• The committee will evaluate the state of IPv6 deployment
by December 2012
Example # 1
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The Mauritian Regulator (ICTA)Approach adopted by the ICTA: Public Consultation launched March 2011.Out comes of the Consolation Paper include• Government to provide an initial form of catalyst by creating
awareness• Setting up a National IPv6 Task Force in order to look into key
IPv6 issues• Government leads the way by example
1. Upgrade public facing servers and services to operationally use native IPv6 by the end of 2013
2. Upgrade internal client applications that communicate with public Internet servers and supporting enterprise networks to operationally use native IPv6 by the end of FY 2015
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Governments & Regulators
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The Egyptian Ministry of communication Approach adopted by the MCIT: Regulating all Governmental purchase and national infrastructure upgrades.
The Ministry ensures that governmental tenders and purchases support IPv6 since May 2004. The Egyptian University Network (EUN) was among the first projects that had IPv6 as a prerequisite in the tender.
A Multi stakeholder National IPv6 Task Force was established to in order help spread IPv6 awareness in the ICT sector in Egypt.
Example # 3
Governments & Regulators
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The Tanzanian Communications Regulatory Authority
Approach adopted by the TCRA: Peering over IPv6 with the National Exchange point (TIX).
TIX received their IPv6 PI address space assignment from AfriNIC in July, 2007.
The TCRA peers at TIX over IPv6 with the Tanzanian Internet Service providers.
The official websites and portals of several governmental(.go.tz) are reachable over IPv6.
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Governments & Regulators
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The Sudanese government
Approach adopted by the Ministry of Communications & the NTC: Launching the National IPv6 task force (SDv6TF) in August 2010 and raising community awareness through technical trainings and workshops.
As a result major Sudanese networks Including the Sudanese Universities Information Network (SUIN) have IPv6 allocations. The Sudanese government are hosting the AFRINIC – 17 meeting in November 2012, where regional and international experts and operators meet, train and exchange best practices.
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Governments & Regulators
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NRENs
In 2012, the university administration came up with a plan to
1) Get rid of NAT in entirety
2) Integrate IPv6 it into every part of their network.
Today, over 50% of the university’s traffic is delivered over IPv6. Peaking at over 100mbit of IPv6 traffic.
University of Free State, South Africa.
The campus environment has approximately 38 thousand users on it every day using the network.
Example # 6
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African IPv6 Interconnection
IPv6 interconnection in Africa courtesy of Hurricane Electric,
as of August 2012
A hand full of countries interconnect together over IPv6