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

2. IPv6 in ERNET

3. Agenda About ERNET IPv6 Activities in ERNET
IPv6 Peering with other network
IPv6 Deployment in India
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4. 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.
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5. 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
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7. 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.
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8. 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.
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9. 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
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10. Present Status ERNET backbone is IPv4/IPv6 dual stack backbone
Demand for IPv6 connectivity from users yet to come
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11. 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
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12. Peering with Other Network
ERNET is peering with European Research Network GEANT for IPv6
We are receiving around 55 IPv6 prefixes from GEANT
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13. 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
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14. 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
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15. Thanks