Sudanese Research and Education Network IPv 6 Deployment

ﺷﺒﻜﺔ ﺍﻟﺒﺤﺚ ﺍﻟﻌﻠﻤﻲ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻌﻠﻴﻢ ﺍﻟﺴﻮﺩﺍﻧﻴﺔ Sudanese Research and Education Network IPv 6 Deployment Case of Sudan/Sud. REN Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG 15) 1 -2 April 2015, Dubai, UAE

Sudanese Experience Toward IPv 6

Activities ü 1 st IPv 6 Workshop; 24 June, 2010 As a side event of AREGNET Meeting. ü 2 nd IPv 6 Workshop; 1 August, 2010 Publish the Sudanese IPv 6 Migration Plan (2011 -2015). Formation of the SDv 6 TF. ü 3 rd IPv 6 Workshop; 1 -4 November, 2010 2 nd IPv 6 Training. Internet Governances day. ü 4 th IPv 6 Workshop; 27 October, 2011 Evaluation of the IPv 6 Deployment in Sudan on 10 Major Information Network Operator

National IPv 6 Training Center

Achievements Number of Session Organized Total Number of Attends 17 400+ Exam Taken 218 CNE 6 Level-1 Certified 182

Activities ü 5 th IPv 6 Workshop; 26 -30 October, 2013 IPv 6 Workshop for Yemeni Delegations

IPv 6 Deployment ü Development of the National IPv 6 Migration Plan (2011 -2015) ü Participate on IPv 6 Events (ITU, ICANN, Afri. NIC, NAV 6) ü Formation of the SDv 6 TF ü Five workshops are organized ü Collaborate with NAv 6 in continuous training program ü Operators are IPv 6 Enable/Ready. ü Host Afri. NIC-17

Development in IPv 6 Assignment

IPv 6 Traffic

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Sud. REN at a Glance ü Sud. REN is licensed ISP dedicated to the Sudanese research and educational intuitions. ü 3 STM-1 (450 Mb) Total Bandwidth to the upstream providers, ü 63+ Member Institution are connected via Layer-3 MPLS VPN on Local carries providers (Sudatel, Canar), ü Sud. REN has its own Numbering resources from 41. 67. 0. 0/18 197. 251. 0. 0/17 2 c 0 f: fec 8: : /32

Internet-Sudatel SIXP 200 Mbps 4 Mbps Internet-Canar 100 Mbps BGP BGP Po. P 2 Po. P 1 BGP Member 63 150 Mbps OSPF BGP Fiber Sud. REN Network OSPF Member 4 Member 3 OSPF Member 1 OSPF Member 2

Resource Utilization • Sud. REN has a utilized of about 90% of the 1 st block and about 70% of the 2 nd one. • Sud. REN started to put a strategic plan in accordance with the National Migration Plan toward IPv 6.

Migration Plan Network Analysis: Gather information on network infrastructure, key network equipment, servers, appliances and computers. Define roadblocks: Identify the main challenges and key issues that hinder deploying IPv 6. Workarounds: Develop a plan to migrate to IPv 6 with minimum impact on existing critical applications. Final Plan: Prepare a set of strategies covering IT equipment acquisition, new critical applications, manpower resource planning and network policies to prepare for fully enabled IPv 6 Network

Sud. REN Network Analysis 100% 90% 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% % Supported POPs 50% Members 10% Servers 100% Applications 80% % Supported

Deploying IPv 6 Steps to deploy IPv 6 • Enable IPv 6 on the Gateways Gateway Internal Network (DMZ) • Enable IPv 6 on Sud. REN internal Network • Enable IPv 6 for Sud. REN members Members’ VPN

IPv 6 in the Gateways • Sud. REN has a native IPv 6 link to the internet via (Sudatel) • Redundancy Tunnel is also available through Internet-Sudatel BGP IPv 6 -Link DMZ IPv 6 -Link Po. P 1

IPv 6 Addressing Each members currently is assigned /48 IPv 6 Address block, and reserved /40 for future demand. Sud. REN started putting a strategy to extend its IPv 6 block. New IPv 6 Addressing plan goals Improving routing aggregation. Minding future growth with contiguous address space. Hierarchical allocation “universities & campuses” Recognizing directly from the IPv 6 Address what location/environment a networks belongs to. • Reflect the organization infrastructure. . • •

IPv 6 Addressing (Cont. ) New IPv 6 Addressing factors and criteria • The classification of members’ institutions. • • • Sud. REN Infrastructure (i. e. PTP, DMZ, Loopbacks …etc. ) Universities & Colleges Research Institutions Schools (expected) Educational Hospitals (expected in the future) • The geographical areas in which the member are based. • Central Area (Khartoum), Northern, Western, Southern, & Eastern • Members’ campuses listing. • Number of campuses for each member

IPv 6 Addressing example 2 C 0 F: FE Geographical Area Member Type Name Campuses IP Address /48 Meaning 2 C 0 F: FE 0 0 00 00 2 C 0 F: FE 00: : University X Campus 1 in Khartoum 2 C 0 F: FE 0 0 00 01 2 C 0 F: FE 00: 1: : University X Campus 2 in Khartoum ……………… 2 C 0 F: FE 3 4 22 01 2 C 0 F: FE 34: 2201: : College X Campus 1 in North of Sudan ……………… 2 C 0 F: FE 6 0 00 03 2 C 0 F: FE 60: 0003: : University X Campus 3 in West of Sudan

Achievements http: //sudren. edu. sd/

Achievements

Challenges • Coordination with upstream providers. • IPv 6 is not supported in most members’ routers. • Use of tunnels. • No Redundancy for IPv 6 Connectivity in Our POPs. • IPv 6 is not fully supported in both POPs Firewalls. • Temporary IPv 6 vs. DHCP.

ﺷﺒﻜﺔ ﺍﻟﺒﺤﺚ ﺍﻟﻌﻠﻤﻲ ﻭﺍﻟﺘﻌﻠﻴﻢ ﺍﻟﺴﻮﺩﺍﻧﻴﺔ Sudanese Research and Education Network Sami Salih Sud. REN, CEO Sami. salih@sudren. edu. sd