IPv6 Opportunities in Unified Communications

market

Shailendra Soni, Industry Principal

Information & CommunicationTechnologies

20 July 2012

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Has the release of Ipv6 opened up new opportunity for UC vendor

in Asia Pacific region?

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Index

IPv6 Introduction

Why migrate to IPv6

IPv6 Challenges and Benefits

Status of IPv6 in Asia Pacific

Impact of IPv6 on Unified Communications (UC) businesses

Opportunity areas for UC vendors

Conclusion

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Introduction to IPv6

Source: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/, Frost & Sullivan

IPv6 is the new IP protocol

The protocol was developed to replace the existing IPv4. The protocol boosts new features that were not present in IPv4.

IPv4 addresses are exhausting at fast rate and after the IPv4 version are exhausted the only option available would be IPv6.

This new protocol can support up to 340 trillion, trillion, trillion unique 128-bit IP addresses as oppose to IPv4 capability to support 4.3 billion unique 32-bit address only.

In general IPv6 comprises of eight groups of 4 hexadecimal digits separated by colons. Example of IPv6 address 1080:0000:0000:0000:0002:0003:200a:126b

IPv6 Launch

On 6th June 2012, the IPv6 was officially launched, encouraging businesses and service provider to move to IPv6 from IPv4

The technology is supported by most of the leading internet service providers, website operators and networking equipment manufacturers

Websites such as Facebook, Yahoo, Google and other leading operators have enabled IPv6 and so have the home networking equipment manufacturer such as Cisco, D-link and others

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Why Migrating to IPv6?

Source: Frost & Sullivan

IPv4 Exhaustion

Total IPv4 Address 4.3 Bn.

IANA distributed last /8 to each of the 5 RIR on 3rd February 2011.

RIR’s will continue to distribute IPv4 address to their respective country members

APNIC started assigning of last /8 on 15th April 2011

Proliferation of IP connected

devices

Increasing tablet sales

Machine to Machine communication

Smartphone sales explosion

Growing number of Datacenters

Expanding Internet User

base

Consumer electronics connected devices –TVs, Camera’s and

others

IP Surveillance cameras demand expected to balloon in the future

IP Phones seeing adoption in new places

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IPv6 - Challenges and benefits

Support very large number of IP devices

Increased security and reliability

Multicasting

Auto configuration

Makes routing more efficient

Concerns around the stability of the protocol

Scared expertise in IPv6

Low awareness of IPv6.

IPv4 and IPv6 are not inherently interoperable

Ben

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Challe

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State of IPv6 in Asia-Pacific

• APNIC has taken measures to controls the distribution of IPv4 addresses by allocating

address each time as a small slice (a /22 or 1024 address) to its member. At present the

organization has approximately 3000 membership account with approximate addition on

300 members every year. Considering these statistics the IPv4 would last for at least a

number of years

• Among the countries IPv6 adoption is sprouted with countries such as

• Government in Malaysia and Singapore has announced their intentions to adopt

IPv6. Service providers and business are also moving towards supporting IPv6 in

these countries.

• In China, government (China Next Generation Internet 5 year program) and

universities are embracing IPv6 in a big way.

• Japan is showing encouraging signs of adoption of IPv6

• Public sectors in South Korea were mandated to adopt IPv6 by the end of 2010, but

apart from that not much of initiative from private companies

• India is still at very early stages of adopting the technology. The department of

telecommunications (DOT) has started with the program so that the technology can

be adopted by government companiesSource: Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)

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Impact of IPv6 on Unified Communications Industry

Impact more on hardware than software powered UC applications

Expansion and new UC deployments to further put pressure on fast depleting IPv4 addresses

Vendors need to ready their solutions to support IPv6.

Increasing security concern owing to new device capability to support IPv6.

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Telephony installed base presents opportunity

Note: All figures are rounded; the base year is 2011. Source: Frost & Sullivan

• At the end of 2011 there were

approximately 30 million plus

traditional telephony lines. Of

these, it is expected that 30%

of TDM lines will migrate to IP

telephony technology. This

translates into approximately

10 million IP Phones

opportunity for next 4 to 5

years

• Additionally business that had

deployed IP telephony prior to

2009 may not have Ipv6

compliant IP Phones and thus

will need to upgrade their

existing phones and IP

system to embrace IPv6

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Traditional Telephony

IP Telephony

Telephony Installed Base

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Video moving from boardrooms into the desktop

Video is slated to be the next voice, as this momentum gains

traction, more IP devices and users will compete for depleting IPv4

addresses

Relative Cost of Solution

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Conclusion

IPv6 full migration is still far away

Plan out the IPv6 migration strategy

Ensure new products bought support IPv6

Service Providers will continue to support both IPv4 and IPv6.

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Shailendra Soni, Industry Principal

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