1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. Statistics – Saudi Arabia (Global)
Source: Dated: 2nd May, 2016

9. Statistics – Saudi Arabia (Local)
APNIC: Use of IPv6 for Saudi Arabia (SA)
Source: Dated 2nd May, 2016

10. 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: , Dated: 2nd May, 2016

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

12. 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

13. Thank you

14. * 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: to
PLAT XLAT PREFIX:
2001:db8:1234::/96
IPv4 SRC:
IPv4 DST:
IPv6 SRC:
2001:db8:aaaa:: *
IPv6 DST:
2001:db8:1234:: *
IPv4 SRC
IPv4 DST
* IPv4-embedded IPv6 address (RFC 6052)

15. 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.