ipv6 opportunities in unified communications market
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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
efits
Challe
nge
s
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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
ICT APAC, Frost & Sullivan
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