Global IPv6 Deployment Update
IP-BizX
3 Feb 2011, Tokyo Japan
Miwa Fujii
Senior IPv6 Program Specialist, APNIC
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IPv4 address exhaustion• Two /8s allocated to APNIC from IANA on
1st Feb 2011
• 39/8• 106/8• Leading Global Internet Groups makeSignificant Announcement about the Statusof the IPv4 Address Pool
• 3 February 2011, 23:30 (Japan time)• Rod Beckstrom, ICANN President and CEO• Raul Eceberria, NRO Chair• Lynn St. Amour, ISOC President and CEO• Olaf Kolkman, IAB Chair
2ISPs• Comcast activated first users with IPv6
native dual stack over DOCSIS,
31/01/2010• Cable modem customers• No need to use any tunneling or translation
techniques including NAT• http://blog.comcast.com/2011/01/comcastactivates-first-users-with-ipv6-native-dualstack-over-docsis.html
3ISPs• IPv6 Forum: List of IPv6 enabled ISPs
• http://www.ipv6forum.com/ipv6_enabled/isp/app
roval_list.php• So far 83 are listed, e.g. in the AP region,• Australia: PPS Internet• China: China Telecom, China Unicom• Indonesia: D-NET, DTPNet• Japan: Avis, NTT, IIJ, FreeBit, Dream Train• Thailand: ThaiSam• Malaysia: Jaring Communications• Of course, there are ISPs with IPv6 not listed inthe IPv6 Forum site
4CDN
• Akamai• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/09161
0-akamai-ipv6.html• Sept 2010

• Finally CDNs are getting ready with IPv6
• Q1 2011: IPv6 service for selected customers• Q3/4 2011: IPv6 services for all customers• Further update to be provided on 22/02/2011• IPv6 Transition Conference, stay tuned!
• http://www.apricot-apan.asia/program/ipv6-trans-conf
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Content providers• Major content providers are already
ready or getting ready with IPv6
• Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon, Cisco…ofcourse Google• Stay tuned, World IPv6 Day• ISOC sponsored event on 8th June 2011
• http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/

6Governments• Governments• Singapore iDA• Reference Specification for Singapore Internet
Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Profile• Specific acquisition and deployment plans foragencies• http://www.ida.gov.sg/Policies%20and%20Regulation/20060424171355.aspx• NZ government• “…looked at challenges or risks Government
Agencies could face if they did nothing about IPv6”• http://www.ipv6.govt.nz/• APEC TELMIN8, Oct 2010 in Okinawa, Japan• Okinawa declaration
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Government agency• DREN (DoD’s R&E WAN, USA)• Fully IPv6 enabled network environment• WAN, LAN, Infrastructure services (recursive
DNS, nTP, SMTP, SMPP), Support services(RADIUS, LDAP, Kerberos), Public facing
services (Authoritative DNS, MX’s, www, NTP),
Security stack (firewall, IDS, IPS etc.), Security
services (WSUS, McAfee, ePO), servers,desktops, laptops (98% Dual Stack)• http://www.ipv6.org.au/summit/talks/Ron_Br
oersma.pdf
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IPv6 deployment status9

http://www.ipv6.org.au/summit/talks/Ron_Broersma.pdf

Mobile networks
Watch out smartphones!
• LTE devices must support IPv6, says Verizon(June 2009)• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061009verizon-lte-ipv6.html• All of the LTE devices will be dual stack soon

• Verizon Wireless accessible via IPv6
• Verizon 4G LTE Network with IPv6
• Wide deployment by 2013
• https://www.lte.vzw.com/AboutLTE/VerizonWirelessLTE
Network/tabid/6003/Default.aspx• Verizon Begins Testing IPv6 on FiOS Services (April2010)• http://newscenter.verizon.com/pressreleases/verizon/2010/verizon-begins-testing-ipv6.html
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IPv6 / IPv4 BGP Table Size Ratio
Jan 2011
% 1.3
1.2
1.1
1.0
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
2004
1105

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IPv6 / IPv4 AS Count Ratio
Jan 2011
%

987
65
432
2004

1205

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Thank you!
<miwa@apnic.net>
Twitter: le_miwa

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