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Middle East & Africa v6 Efforts

Feb 2006

Latif Ladid

Thanks to Yves Poppe for his excellent work in Africa

Dir. IP StrategyTeleglobe

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UAE

Bangladesh

UAE

Morocco

Nigeria

under formationunder formation

Uganda, Kenia, South Africa

Uganda, Kenia, South Africa

Uganda, Kenia, South Africa

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Itidal Hasoon

Co-chair MEA IPv6

Task Force

United Arab Emirates Feb 2001

Mar 2005Crown Prince Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum

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Adel Gaaloul

Chair Tunisian IPv6

Task Force

Tunisia

April 2004

Minister of Communications

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Baher Esmat

Chair Egyptian IPv6

Task Force

Egypt

Sep 2004

Minister of Communications Dr. Tarek Kamel

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Adiel A. Akplogan CEO AfriNIC Ltd

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Dr. Tarek Kamel Honorary Chair

MEA IPv6 Task Force

Co-Chairs

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International subsea Cable capacity

SAT3/WASC/SAFE is the major subsea artery circling the

continent; design capacity of 120gb on SAT3;

The missing link has been the African Eastcoast. This will be solved with EASSy

EASSy will connect into Seamewe4

SAS-1 will connect Port Sudan and Jeddah

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SAFE

SAT-3/WASC

EASSy

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EASSy: the missing link

Currently US$200 million confirmed from 26 investors including

Teleglobe

8840 km

2 fiber pair collapsed ring

Design capacity: 640Gb

RFS: Q2 2007

See : http://eassy.org/

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Regional terrestrial cables systems

• Comesa Comtel project– 21 national telecom operators

• Comafrica Com-7 project• SADC SRII project

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Easier via satellite?

• Canada’s IDRC recent studies indicate: – “Prohibitions on VSAT hamper the roll out of telecom infrastructure,

and high license fees make VSAT inaccessible for most of the smaller institutions which comprise 90% of the private and non- governmental sector in Africa.”

– Paren report: IP bandwidth in Africa up to 50 times more expensive than in America;

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Internet in Africa• Healthy growth in percentage terms

                                                                

                                   

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Internet in Africa

• Healthy growth in absolute terms

Highest capacity international hub cities for Africa in Mbps - source: Primetrica 2005

2002 2003 2004 2005Cairo 555 1287 1293 2064Johannesburg 207 342 710 1059Rabat 152 167 312 624Cape Town 136 284 171 469Algiers 144 159 163 344Dakar 38 84 315 315Tunis 79 200 200 310

Internet bandwidth connected to African locations across international borders

Data as of mid 2005 Top « overseas » connectivity

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Fast growth in number of internet users

INTERNET USERS AND POPULATION STATISTICS FOR AFRICA

AFRICA REGION

Population ( 2005 Est. )

Pop. %in

World

Internet Users,Latest Data

Penetration(% Population)

% Users

in World

Use Growth(2000-2005)

Total for Africa

896,721,874 14.0 % 23,917,500 2.7 % 2.5 % 429.8 %

Rest of the World

5,523,380,848 86.0 % 948,910,501 17.2 % 97.5 % 166.2 %

WORLD TOTAL

6,420,102,722100.0

%972,828,001 15.2 %

100.0 %

169.5 %

Source: ITU updated nov 2005

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Internet exchanges in Africa

Source: nsrc status june 2005

An increasing number of internet exchanges is

essential to the growth of the internet in Africa and to

prepare the continent for the upcoming IP convergence

Too much African content is hosted outside the continent.

IX’s would be ideal locations for initial deployment and

support of both IPv4 and IPv6

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Africa goes mobile

Mobile and fixed subscribers per 100 inhabitants source: ITU

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Africa started on the path to 3G!

Market Q3 2003 Q4 2003 Q1 2004 Q2 2004 Q3 2004 Q4 2004 Q1 2005 Q2 2005 Q3 2005

World 1,621,103 2,754,129 4,356,108 7,477,462 11,446,130 16,517,916 23,622,605 29,357,065 40,072,811

Africa --- --- --- --- --- --- 10,853 26,341 50,359

Asia Pacific 1,138,597 2,079,622 3,383,308 5,114,795 7,222,355 9,470,851 13,066,071 15,791,601 21,451,689

Europe: Western 482,506 674,507 968,916 2,353,885 4,094,914 6,744,243 10,139,417 13,016,978 17,868,570

Middle East --- --- 3,884 8,782 19,326 44,997 75,667 112,440 157,390

USA/ Canada --- --- --- --- 109,535 245,545 302,214 361,172 470,527

Source: GSMA number of WCDMA connections

Note that ITU estimates 67 million mobile phone users for Africa by end 2005 up from 61.2 million year before

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Africa’s routes to WLAN’s

• Wi-fi?– Knysna, S.A. : Africa's first Municipal Wi-Fi Broadband Network

offers VoIP and Internet Access (allAfrica.com nov 7th) – Wifinder (see http://www.wifinder.com/ ) lists African wi-fi hotspots

for Egypt, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia

• WiMax?– ZTE to install a 3 city Wi-Max for Angola’s Mundostartel– Alvarion to install Wi-max in Kinshasa– Telkom SA trial Wi-Max– “Intel, is expanding to Nigeria and Kenya to beef up its African

business and hopes WiMax wireless technology will be launched commercially on the continent this year.

Etc, etc..

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The IPv6 factor

• Toward IP converged telecommunications– First opportunity for upgrade to a new and improved

protocol version and address scheme since 01/1983– Prerequisite to make IP Convergence and related service

and revenue opportunities a reality. – Inflexion point in the evolution of telecommunications– Early mover advantage in the foodchain.– IP Governance was major issue at recent WSIS.

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What does IPv6 bring to the table?

• Solves address shortage• Restores p2p• Mobility

– Better spectrum utilization– Better battery life!

• Security– Ipsec mandatory

• Multicast

• Neighbour discovery– Ad-Hoc networking– Home networks– Plug and play– Auto configuration

• Permanent addresses– Identity (CLID)– Traceability (RFID)– Sensors and monitoring

ADSL, cable, 3G, Wi-Fi, Wi-Max provide the always-on

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What drives IP Convergence?– Application domains:

• Mobile IP and 3G

• Voice, radio, TV over IP

• Grid, Infiniband

• Massive multiplayer games

• RFID, control and sensor networks

• Microsoft

– Critical mass of:• digital communicating end-user devices

• high speed always on access

– National policies:• Research and Education networks

• National Defense

• National/regional policies and economic weight

Disruptive on most existing carrier business models

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Should Africa start to move now?

• Yes!– IP convergence will impacts many aspects of human

activities and practically all industries

– Periods of rapid change give a chance to leapfrog to new technologies and close development and economic gaps.

– Transition to IPv6 is one of the essential ingredients to reap the economic benefits of this new converged world.

• The continent started the transition already– The Research and Education Community and some

progressive carriers show the way

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Egypt’s R&E Community will be ready

• September 26th:– Juniper announces that MCIT (Egyptian Ministry

of Communication and Information Technology) has selected them to build a nationwide IPv6 network for the EUN and National Research Centers.

                                                                                            

                                   

Number of Internet Users

                                                                                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                    

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African R&E Community

• Virtual University Concept– Ideal in very distributed geographies

such as Africa or Canada– Dependent on quality end to end

telecommunications– Perfect use of R&E networks– AFUNET initiative should consider

dual stack IPv4/IPv6 networking from the start

• AFUNET will connect to their IPv4/IPv6 enabled counterparts Géant, Internet2, APAN

                                                    

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UAE

Bangladesh

UAE

Morocco

Nigeria

under formation

Khawarizmi-v6

Uganda, Kenia, South Africa

Uganda, Kenia, South Africa

Uganda, Kenia, South Africa

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Khawarizmi and 6Mandela projects

• The Khawarizmi concept was first presented at the Egyptian IPv6 Summit in May 2005 and suggested to expand it to Africa with 6Mandela

• The main idea was:– Negotiate consensus and approval of carriers/ISP’s involved, this under

the auspices of national and regional IPv6 fora, with support of national Ministries of Information Technologies

– Set up a budget for the acquisition of tunnel brokers where required– Start with a core of two, preferably three countries to demonstrate ease of

feasibility and trigger a domino effect.– Consider some applications (i.a. mobile IPv6 push service )

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Yemen Telecom (PTC)

              

KACST

Teleglobe IPV6

network

Teleglobe6PE router(s)

TeleglobeIPV4 router(s)

Teleglobe IPV4

network

Tunnelbroker IPv6 connectivity in the Arab World as catalyst for Khawarizmi project

Planned connectivity to

IPV6 over IPV4 tunnels

Other Tier 1IPV6 networks

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Path to IPv6 : Teleglobe case study

• Major points of consideration:– Speed of transition to pervasive IPv6? major unknown– Need for a positive customer IPv6 experience.– Customer exposure to IPv6 : from nil to advanced.

• Approach minimizing investment and operational risk:– Quality native peering with the IPv6 world using dedicated routers at multiple sites in

North-America, Europe and Asia.– MPLS transport through the core– Customer access:

• Teleglobe provided IPv6 over IPv4 Hexago tunnel broker using TSP (Tunnel Set-up Protocol) with AAA

• Native IPv6 access to Teleglobe Cisco 6PE enabled dual-stack access routers.