Activities on IPv6 in JAPAN TELECOM Hirokazu Sano and Tomohide Nagashima Information and Communication Laboratory JAPAN TELECOM Co., Ltd.

Agenda Japan Telecom group –Brief history and our services Activities on IPv6 in the past –Construction and operation of IPv6 test bed Future Plan on IPv6 –Toward the start of IPv6 commercial service

JAPAN TELECOM group New common carrier (Established 1984) Domestic long distance call service (1987) International call service by ITJ(1989) –ITJ was merged with JT (1997) Local call service (2001) Mobile phone service (J-phone group) –2G(1994), Mobile Internet(1999), 3G(2001) Internet provider service (1997) –Dial up, Dedicated line, ADSL, CATV, FWA Alliance with AT&T and BT (1999)

Activities on IPv6 in the past Obtain NLA address from WIDE Construct IPv6 test bed Connect with 6Bone-JP BGP connection with WIDE and some ISPs Continue to operate this test bed Acquire sTLA address from APNIC Increase BGP connection with sTLA holders

Other 6bone-site BT LEANET v6Native v4/v6 dual ＷＷＷ Mail DNS v6 Rtr NSPIXP6 WIDE sTLA in Japan Internet JT Head Office Kajigaya Center Kyusyu Lab. JT Lab. v4/v6 dual Rtr User Overview of Experiment

Future Plan Construct a new IPv6 network Start field trial with native and tunneling mode connection users Accumulate know-how on operation Increase BGP connection with sTLA holders in the world Begin commercial operation

Overview of Field Trial ODN DNS NSPIXP6 6la-core1 WWW LA-IIX :v4/v6tunnel :v6 native Customers INTERNET BT LEANet U S A Tokyo NSPIXP6 Osaka Los IIX Customers

Summary We have constructed and operated IPv6 test bed. We have accumulated know-how on IPv6. We are constructing a new IPv6 network. We are preparing for field trial and commercial service. We are looking for sTLA holders, both in Japan and in the world, with whom we wish to have BGP connection.