Dipak Singh ERNET India deepak@eis.ernet.in 23rd APAN Meetings 2007 Dipak Singh ERNET India deepak@eis.ernet.in

IPv6 in ERNET

Agenda About ERNET IPv6 Activities in ERNET IPv6 Peering with other network IPv6 Deployment in India February 24, 2019

About ERNET ERNET is a dedicated network for Education and Research Community in India. It connects premier educational and research institutes in the country ERNET India is a non profit making autonomous organisation under Administrative control of Dept. of Information Technology, Govt. of India. February 24, 2019

Network for Educational & Research Community 15 Point of presence (POPs) at premier E&R institutions in the country. User base 1200 institutions Terrestrial, VSAT STM-1 Ready Backbone Satellite Hub in C-band at Bangalore 150 Mbps Internet gateway bandwidth Dedicated Training Lab for ERNET users February 24, 2019

February 24, 2019

Activity on IPv6 To Encourage usage of IPv6 in ERNET, DIT asked ERNET to set up a IPv6 Test bed along with IIT Kanpur Major Objective Support Dual Stack IPv4 and IPv6 backbone Setup IPv6 Domain Name Server & IPv6 Mail Server at all PoP locations and test Mail Services using IPv6 Demonstrate following features supported by IPv6 Plug ‘n’ Play (Auto Configuration) Multicasting QoS Organise an IPv6 workshop for participants from academia and industry. February 24, 2019

Benefits of IPv6 Test Bed Provide hands-on experience in managing a IPv6 network and system management. Sort out inter-operability issues Gain experience of implementing various transition mechanisms Define a seamless migration path from IPv4 to IPv6 ERNET (along with IIT Kanpur) can train ISPs and other networking professionals in implementing IPv6 in their network. February 24, 2019

Status of the Test Bed ERNET was alloted IPv6 address by APNIC (2001:0E30::/32) IPv6 address have been assigned to all PoPs and Backbone Links The CISCO IOS on backbone router were upgraded OSPFv3 along with OSPFv2 routing was deployed in backbone IPv6 DNS and Mail Server were setup and Mail services were tested on IPv6 All the objective were achieved and were demonstrated February 24, 2019

Present Status ERNET backbone is IPv4/IPv6 dual stack backbone Demand for IPv6 connectivity from users yet to come February 24, 2019

IPv6 Enabled ERNET Backbone Delhi Backbone IPv6 Addresses 2001:0E30::/40 2001:0E30::22/126 2001:0E30::5/126 ::21 Kanpur ::13 2001:0E30::6/126 Backbone Area 0 2001:0E30::18/126 Mumbai OSPFv3 Kolkata 2001:0E30::57/126 ::198 ::58 Pune Hyderabad ::197 2001:0E30::101/126 ::126 ::178 ::125 ::177 2001:0E30::102/126 ::129 ::130 Chennai ::14 IISC ::137 ::138 VSAT HUB February 24, 2019

Peering with Other Network ERNET is peering with European Research Network GEANT for IPv6 We are receiving around 55 IPv6 prefixes from GEANT February 24, 2019

Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network Univ. of Jammu Panjab Univ. Chandigarh Univ. of Raj. Jaipur (TIFR,BARC) IUCAA Pune CAT Indore IISC Banglore IIT Chennai Univ. of Hyderabad IOP Kolkata IIT Guwahati AMU Mumbai Bhubaneshwar VECC IIT Kanpur (DU) Delhi Universities / R&D Institutions proposed to be connected in Ist Phase ERNET PoPs 45 Mbps IPLC Multi-Gigabit pan-European Research Network Connecting 32 European Countries and 28 NRENs Backbone capacity in the range of: 34Mb/s-10Gb/s AT BE CH CY CZ HR HU IE IL GR DE DK EE ES FI FR Austria Germany Belgium Cyprus Switzerland Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland Spain Greece France IS IT LT LU LV MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK Croatia Hungary Ireland Israel Iceland Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Netherlands Latvia Norway Malta Poland Portugal Romania Sweden Slovenia Slovakia TR UK United Kingdom Turkey ERNET Backbone Links Additional Links Proposed February 24, 2019

IPv6 Deployment The IIT Kanpur Campus Network has been enabled to support IPv6 BITS Pilani has also a IPv6 Lab India IPv6 Forum No demand of IPv6 even for commercial requirement Telco & Commercial ISPs are all geared for IPv6 deployment as and when demand arise Government is promoting usage of IPv6 For e-Governance use of IPv6 has been mandated February 24, 2019

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