APNIC Development Director Che-Hoo Cheng presents on the importance of deploying IPv6 at the Lao Digital Week 2024, held in Vientiane, Lao PDR from 10 to 14 January 2024.

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It’s time to deploy IPv6
Che-Hoo Cheng
Senior Director, Development
APNIC

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What is IPv6?
• Internet runs with Internet Protocols to operate globally
• Each node on Internet needs a globally unique IP (Internet Protocol)
address to connect
• There are two versions of Internet Protocols in production on Internet
– IPv4 & IPv6
• IPv4 addresses have 32 bits so there can only be 4,294,967,296 unique
IPv4 addresses (with some which cannot be used) and they are running
out
• IPv6 addresses have 128 bits so there can be
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique IPv6
addresses (with some which cannot be used) providing almost
unlimited amount of address space for use on Internet

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IP for
Everything

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Growth of IPv4 Global Routing Table

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IPv4 Depletion
• Delegated – 99.5%
• Reserved – 0.2%
• Available – 0.3%
With IPv4 being close to depletion,
the way forward is to transition to
IPv6.

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Growth of IPv6 Global Routing Table

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Global IPv6 End-User Readiness
https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6

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IPv6 Economy League table

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Global IPv6 End-User Readiness

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IPv6 End-User Readiness – SEA

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IPv6 End-User Readiness – SEA

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IPv6 End-User Readiness – SEA

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IPv6 Address Allocation in Laos

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IPv6 End-User Readiness – Laos

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IPv6 End-User Readiness – Laos

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Motivation for IPv6 Deployment
• Commitment to Internet Technology Evolution
• Government Encouragement
• Capability to support growth, IoT, Smart Cities, future
services
• Simplify network design
• Reduce load on CGN
– Lower CAPEX

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Three Stages of IPv6 Growth
• Fast growth driven by single, early market driver
– Incl. Australia, Bhutan, South Korea, Taiwan
• Initial roll-out followed by spread to other
Internet Service Providers
– Incl. India, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Viet Nam
Taiwan
• Mature IPv6 market with rich availability
from access providers and deployment by
providers of Internet services (incl.
content, cable TV, cloud)
– Incl. Japan, Malaysia
India
Malaysia

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IPv6 Traffic Volume Rank in Operators
https://pulse.internetsociety.org/technologies

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Industry Trend: Content
- Top 1000 Websites
50.3%
* https://whynoipv6.com/

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Industry Trend: Devices Worldwide
https://gs.statcounter.com/platform-market-share/desktop-mobile-tablet/

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Industry trend: Who is driving IPv6?
• Mobile is driving IPv6
• Born and raised on NAT
– Heavily-based on CG-NAT
• But more and more mobile networks have deployed IPv6
• The true driver for IPv6 adoption is mobile internet!

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IPv6 and Mobile Devices
• Android support 464XLAT transition technology
• Apple iOS IPv6-only network support since version 9. Reports of Carrier
Update for dual-stack since at least iOS 11.3.
• All Apple AppStore apps must include IPv6 support since early 2016

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IPv6 Mobile Network and Technology
Carrier Economy Note
Verizon Wireless USA Dual-stack (2011)
T-Mobile USA 464XLAT (2012)
SK Telecom Korea 464XLAT (2014)
Telstra Australia 464XLAT (2016)
Reliance Jio India Dual-stack (2016)
AIS Thailand Dual-stack (2017)
Bhutan Telecom Bhutan Dual-stack (2018)
Chunghwa Telecom Taiwan Dual-stack (2018)

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Getting IPv6 is One Click away
• If you are an APNIC member and have IPv4 addresses,
you can login to MyAPNIC and just “One Click” to
automatically receive your IPv6 addresses.
– If you have IPv4 allocation, you will receive a /32 IPv6 allocation
– If you have IPv4 assignment, you will receive a /48 IPv6 assignment
• If you are not an APNIC member, you can submit a
membership and resource application via APNIC website
– https://www.apnic.net/get-ip/get-ip-addresses-asn/

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Training & Technical Assistance
APNIC provides technical training and
technical assistance for IPv6 deployment.
• Operational training
– Self-paced
– Instructor-led
– Virtual Labs
• Technical Assistance
– Online or F2F
• Visit https://academy.apnic.net for
upcoming training events, self-paced
training and request for technical
assistance
– 2-day IPv6 Deployment Workshop in
Laos starting tomorrow (11 Jan 2024)
• Plan, prepare, deploy. Find your 10-
step plan here:
https://www.apnic.net/community/ipv6/d
eploy-ipv6/

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IPv6 Development Grants
• APNIC Foundation and the Information
Society Innovation Fund (ISIF Asia)
provides financial support.
• Recipients of 2022 IPv6 Deployment grants
– BOOM! Inc., Micronesia: USD 250,000
– Tonga Communication Corporation, Tonga: USD
250,000
– National Institute of Technology Karnataka,
Surathkal, India: USD 240,000
– Yayasan Badan Wakaf Universitas Islam Indonesia,
Indonesia: USD 60,000
• 2023 IPv6 Deployment grants are being
awarded.
• Keep an eye on ISIF Asia website for future
announcements of grants.
https://isif.asia/

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Towards Digital Laos…
It’s time for Laos to deploy IPv6 as IPv6
offers governments, ISPs, academic
institutions, financial institutions and other
businesses and organizations the ability to
accommodate growth on Internet given IPv4
addresses have almost been exhausted.

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APRICOT 2024 – Register now!
https://2024.apricot.net/register/register

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Thank You!
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