STC IPv6 Services Overview IPv6 Task Force Meeting 17 5th May, 2016 Eng. Salah S. Almofleh R&D Expert Network Technologies Department Research & Development Saudi Telecom Company

Outline STC IPv6 Strategy (Reminder) STC IPv6 Services Status 464XLAT POC Trial Overview IPv6 Statistics – Saudi Arabia Conclusion

STC IPv6 Strategy 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 Service Status Remarks Status IPv6-Enabled Service Live customers Launched International Transit DIA ISP National Peering VPNv6 No demand Business L3-VPNv6 All capable CPEs have been upgraded to support v6 High Speed Internet (Fixed) Dual-stack PDN/PDP PoC trial done. 464XLAT PoC trial on-going. Live Pilot planned Under investigation High Speed Internet (Mobile)

464XLAT POC Trial Overview (1/3) Defined in IETF RFC 6877 (Informational) Motivations: No new protocols required, potentially quick deployment No IPv4 assignment to UEs, IPv4 public address pool at CGN only IPv6-only service plane, simpler to operate Global deployments/POCs: T-Mobile (USA) SK Telecom (South Korea) Orange (Poland) Mobitel, Si.Mobile, Tusmobile (Slovenia) Telenor (Norway) Vodafone (Germany) Japan (JPIX)

464XLAT POC Trial Overview (2/3) Smartphones: Android (CLAT on R4.3+): Samsung & Huawei Windows Phone (CLAT on R8.1+): To be tested iOS (Apple): CLAT not supported natively

464XLAT POC Trial Overview (3/3) YOUTUBE-HTTPS Working INSTAGRAM SNAPCHAT WHATSAPP FACEBOOK BIT-TORRENT Not Working HTTP_DOWNLOAD YOUTUBE_HD General-HTTP-Video HTTPS DAILYMOTION-HTTP PLAYSTATION-HTTP GOOGLE PLAY YOUTUBE AMAZON TWITTER HTTP Next steps: Complete POC trials: more Apps (Skype, VPNs,…) more NEs (DPI, PCRF,…) more UEs (smartphones, routers mifi’s) UE tethering Billing LI Potential small-scale pilot in the live network by end of year

Statistics – Saudi Arabia (Global) Source: http://labs.apnic.net/dists/v6dcc.html, Dated: 2nd May, 2016

Statistics – Saudi Arabia (Local) APNIC: Use of IPv6 for Saudi Arabia (SA) Source: http://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6/SA, Dated 2nd May, 2016

Statistics – Saudi Arabia % of WEB Pages Available over IPv6 : 53.25% | number of sites: 84 / 500 Top 20 websites (Saudi Arabia) May’3rd, 2016   Website address IPv6 support 1 Google.com.sa Yes 11 Argaam.com No 2 Youtube.com 12 Wikipedia.org 3 Google.com 13 Blogspot.com 4 Facebook.com 14 Vid.me 5 Sabq.org 15 Souq.com 6 Twitter.com 16 t.co 7 Amazon.com 17 Haraj.com.sa 8 Live.com 18 Moi.gov.sa 9 Yahoo.com 19 Adslgate.com 10 Onclickads.net 20 Linkedin.com Source: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/countries/SA , Dated: 2nd May, 2016

Statistics – STC Current Stats: IPv6 Modems Count stands at approx. 1.1M (VDSL & ONTs) GGC IPv6 Traffic around 46 Gbps

Conclusion STC is leading the IPv6 transition in the region STC’s key IP-dependent public services are IPv6 enabled: Fixed Broadband HSI service L3-VPN service DIA service International Peering service IPv6-enabled Mobile Broadband Network is our next target

Thank you

* IPv4-embedded IPv6 address (RFC 6052) 464XLAT Sample Walk-through Stateless XLAT [RFC 6145] Stateful XLAT [RFC 6146] Native IPv6 CLAT XLAT PREFIX: 2001:db8:aaaa::/96 PLAT XLAT PREFIX: 2001:db8:1234::/96 IPv4 POOL: 192.0.2.1 to 192.0.2.100 PLAT XLAT PREFIX: 2001:db8:1234::/96 192.168.1.2 198.51.100.1 IPv4 SRC: 192.168.1.2 IPv4 DST: 198.51.100.1 IPv6 SRC: 2001:db8:aaaa::192.168.1.2* IPv6 DST: 2001:db8:1234::198.51.100.1* IPv4 SRC 192.0.2.1 IPv4 DST 198.51.100.1 * IPv4-embedded IPv6 address (RFC 6052)

IPv6 vs IPv4 Comparison as seen by STC users Chrome Mozilla Generated using web developer network in Mozilla and developer view in Chrome Performance dependent on browser, site content, server load, etc.