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
0.000
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
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
10
18602
208510
380834
0
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)
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.
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