STC IPv6 Services &

Users Statistics

Eng. Salah S. Almofleh

R&D Expert,

Networks R&D,

Saudi Telecom Company

IPv6 National Forum – 7th May, 2015

Outline

Key Milestones

STC IPv6 Strategy

STC IPv6 Service Status

Statistics – Saudi Arabia

IPv6 on Mobile Apps

Conclusion

Statistics – STC

Service-by-Service approach

• Services impacted by IPv4 exhaustion to adopt IPv6 first (e.g. HSI for fixed and mobile)

• Customers demand for IPv6 connectivity (e.g. L3-VPNs, DIA, International Peering)

• Wall-gardened services on private IPv4 (e.g. IPTV, VoIP, Mobile VAS) – needs business case

STC IPv6 Strategy

2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

IPv6 International Transit

Dual-stack STC Website

Dual-stack DSL Pilot

Centralized IP address

management authority

within NW

Dual-stack IGW

Infrastructure

MOI IPv6 Trial

NAT 444 POC

3G Mobile Broadband

IPv6 Trial

Guidelines for IPv6

addressing plans

IPv6 International

Peering Link

Dual-stack HSI POC

IPv4/IPv6 Co-

existence and

Transition Study

STC NSIC Formed

Network Audited

Strategy Devised

POC-National

Peering VPNv6

Technical Specs

Imposed

CITC Task Force

Formed

Enabling BRAS in

the live network

Dual-stack ONT

Pilot Project &

Debugging

Dual-stack

Validation for Fixed

Broadband including

GPON ONT and

VDSL

Dual-stack IPv4/v6

connections for LTE

and 3G

STC IPv6 addressing

plan defined

2008

Official

Launch for

Home

Broadband

Key Milestones

Remarks Status IPv6-Enabled

Service

• Live customers Launched International Transit

• Live customers Launched DIA

• Live customers Launched ISP National Peering VPNv6

Launched Business L3-VPNv6

• Current subscriber count approx 380K; and growing.

Launched HSI (DSL)

• Live customers. Pilot Project Launched

HSI (FTTH)

• Dual-stack PDN/PDP PoC trial done • 464XLAT PoC Trial Planned for Q2/2015 • MAP-E/T & 4rd under study

PoC trials HSI (Mobile)

STC IPv6 Service Status

STC IPv6 Network Topology (Fixed Broadband)

IPv4 Content

DSLAM/OLT BRAS

IPv6 Content

Internet

xDSL/ONT IPv4v6 PPP

RADIUS

IP/MPLS IGW Saudinet

• Dual-stack PPPoE

• WAN P2P = /64 P2P (via SLAAC)

• /56 (via DHCPv6-PD)

• DNS (A, AAAA) via IPv4 transport

• L2 (VLAN) • Tunneling (PWE3) • PPPoE termination

• User Authentication

• IP address assignments

• BW management

• DNS

• Native IPv6 routing

• Native IPv6 routing

• WireFilters

• Firewalls

• International peering

DNS

Statistics – Saudi Arabia

Source: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/cible.php?country=SA&option=all Dated: 3rd May, 2015

Source: http://labs.apnic.net/dists/v6dcc.html Dated: 5th May, 2015

Statistics – Saudi Arabia

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0.200

0.400

0.600

0.800

1.000

1.200

1.400

1.600

1.800

IPv6 Users Ratio (Percentage) within MENOG

IPv6 Users Ratio

Source: http://labs.apnic.net/dists/v6dcc.html Dated: 5th May, 2015

Statistics – Saudi Arabia

Current Stats: IPv6 Modems Count stands at approx. 380K

GGC IPv6 Egress Traffic around 40 Gbps 10% of the overall GGC Egress traffic

GGC IPv6 Ingress Traffic around 2.7 Gbps

Statistics – STC

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18602

208510

380834

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50000

100000

150000

200000

250000

300000

350000

400000

March, 2015 18 April, 2015 25 April, 2015 3 May, 2015

STC IPv6 Modems Count (Historical)

STC IPv6 Users

Source: http://bgp.he.net/AS39386#_graph6 Dated: 23rd April, 2015

Statistics – STC (IPv6 Peers)

• IPv6 support status by most common mobile Apps

NO Yes

IPv6 on Mobile Apps

Conclusion

• STC is leading the IPv6 transition in the region

• STC’s Fixed Broadband Network is fully IPv6

capable

• Mobile broadband network will soon be fully IPv6

capable.

• STC Enterprise services (L3-VPN, DIA, Int. Peering,

…) are IPv6 enabled.

Thank you