IPV6 DEPLOYMENT IN SINGAPORE

1st Global IPv6 Summit in

Asia Pacific26 Feb 2003, Taipei

Mr Lim Choon Sai (SGNIC)

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CONTENTS

StatusResearch & Education (R&E)

Internet and Telecommunications Service Providers (SP)

Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore

Singapore Network Information Centre

Conclusion

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STATUS

Research & Education (R&E)Singapore Advanced Research and Education Network, SingAREN

Institute for Infocomm Research, I2R

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STATUS (R&E)

SingAREN’s IPv6 Project:Provide IPv6 transit service

Deployed an IPv6 exchange-Singapore IPv6 Internet eXchange (SIX)

SIX allows entities to interconnect/access IPv6 connectivity

Pseudo TLA allocates IPv6 addresses

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STATUS (R&E)SingAREN con’t

SIX

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STATUS (R&E)SingAREN con’t

Deployment of IPv6 network & services

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STATUS (R&E)

Institute for Infocomm Research, I2R A1NET2 Testbed to study the challenges of realising an all IP

network QoS issues in core network and building an IP telephony

system based on SIP

AMASE Middleware framework that enable mobile devices to

move between wired and wireless IP network while access multimedia services

Combines mobility, security and QoS functions and operates with IPv6 networks

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STATUS (R&E)

Institute for Infocomm Research, I2R (con’t)

PING IPv6 TCP/IP protocol stack development on the

Microsoft Windows suite of OS

RATTLESNAKE Provide reliable performance improvement

protocol for next generation wireless network

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STATUS (R&E)

Institute for Infocomm Research, I2R (con’t)

NEBULA Integrate the various I2R projects Enable users to see and experience the inter-

working of the modules from end-to-end

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STATUS

Internet and Telecommunication Service providers (SP)

MobileOne

Pacific Internet

SingTel

StarHub

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STATUS (SP)

MobileOne Support IPv4/IPv6 interoperability in the transition period

Deployment depends on availability of 3GPP release 99 GPRS/WCDMA terminals

Infrastructure should probably support IPv6 by 2003/2004

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STATUS (SP)

Pacific InternetObtained /32 IPv6 addresses

Testing IPv6 tunneling protocol

Upgraded network equipment and server OS to support IPv6

Plan to connect to SingAREN

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STATUS (SP)

SingTel Obtained two /32 IPv6 addressesInternal testing of IPv4-IPv6 transition mechanisms and IPv6 featuresNative IPv6 testings being planned between SingNet & SingTel Internet eXchange Vendor IPv6 equipment testingsNo commercial service planned

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STATUS (SP)

StarHub Looking into business case in 3G and Internet eXchange

Planning to conduct in-house trial on IPv6

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STATUS (GOVT)

Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, IDA

Vision for Infocomm Technology Roadmap “For home technologies to take off, these technologies

….., and that deployment of IPv6 is critical to meet the demand for address, QoS and security”

Actively soliciting IPv6 deployment status from the industry

Possibly some IDA lead initiatives on IPv6 in the near future

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STATUS (NIC)

Singapore Network Information Centre, SGNIC

Formation of a technical work group

Intend to invite representations from ISPs, Research and Education Institutions, IDA

IPv6 is one of the area of interest

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STATUS

ActivitiesSingAREN Seminar : “Moving from IPv4 to IPv6”

CISCO- I2R Seminar : “Practical Aspects of Internet Evolution- The What, Why, How and When of IPv6”

Formation of the Singapore chapter of IPv6 Forum

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STATUS (SUMMARY)

Summary R & D effort

Monitoring IPv6 development

Wait-and-see

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CONCLUSION

IPv6 DeploymentEase of IPv4 transition to IPv6

Availability killer applications, business case

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Institute for Infocomm Research, I2R (www.i2r.a-star.edu.sg)

MobileOne (www.m1.com.sg)

Pacific Internet (www.pacific.net.sg)

SingAREN (www.singaren.net.sg)

SingTel (www.singtel.com)

StarHub (www.starhub.com.sg)

THANK YOU