What is APNIC: Infotel 2014
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Asia Pacific Network Information Centre Pubudu Jayasinghe Colombo, Sri Lanka 27 October 2014 “A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves the entire Asia Pacific community” 1
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An overview of what APNIC is and the services we offer.
Transcript of What is APNIC: Infotel 2014
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Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
Pubudu Jayasinghe
Colombo, Sri Lanka
27 October 2014
“A global, open, stable, and secure Internet that serves
the entire Asia Pacific community”
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Overview
About APNIC
What APNIC does
Priorities
Connecting to the Internet
Membership benefits
www.apnic.net
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About APNIC
• APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is an open, membership-based, not-for-profit organization providing Internet addressing services to the Asia Pacific
• We distribute– ASN
– IPv4
– IPv6
• We serve 56 economies in the Asia Pacific
www.apnic.net/about
One of 5 Regional Internet Registries
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www.nro.net
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Where do IP addresses come from?
ISP
End user
Standards
Allocation
Allocation
Assignment
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What APNIC does
About APNIC
What APNIC does
Priorities
Connecting to the Internet
Membership benefits
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The services we offer
Resource services• IPv4, IPv6, ASN
delegations• Reverse DNS delegations• Resource registrations
• Authoritative registration server
• Whois• IRR
Policy development• Facilitating the policy
development process• Implementing policy
changes
Sharing information• APNIC Conferences and
regional meetings• Websites• APNIC Blog• Publications, mailing lists
blog.apnic.net
Training• Face-to-Face• eLearning
• Subsidized for Members
• Engineering Assistance
training.apnic.net
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You are part of the APNIC community!
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Our priorities
About APNIC
What APNIC does
Priorities
Connecting to the Internet
Membership benefits
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APNIC’s priorities
Core ServicesIP address and ASN
distribution, reverse DNS delegation, whois
registrations, routing, PDP
Network SecurityDNSSEC, RPKI, SAVE, LEA
engagement and capacity building
Development
Training, outreachIPv6 Deployment
Training, capacity building, community development
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APNIC Training in 2013
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Courses
20 Classroom24 Online
Professionals
1,826 trained
Video archives
63 videos135,516 views
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APNIC eLearning
More than 20 courses to
choose from
The latest on IPv6 deployment,
Routing and Network Security
Real-time interaction
training.apnic.net
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Policy development
PDP central to APNIC
activities
Gauging consensus is critical
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Why is policy development important?
Open Anyone can participate
Transparent
Bottom-up
All decisions, policies, and documents are publicly available
The Internet community proposes and approves policy
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Connecting to the Internet
About APNIC
What APNIC does
Priorities
Connecting to the Internet
Membership benefits
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How the Internet works
202.150.8.132
202.150.8.99
202.178.112.1
202.178.120.15
AS11167
12.100.1.8
AS24478
AS17726
2401:A700:1::D1
2401:A700:F::E3
2401:3E00:DD::1
2401:3E00:EE::15A
Autonomous System Number (ASN)
IP Address (IPv4)
IP Address (IPv6)
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How the Internet works
• 3d visualization of all the networks worldwide that are interconnected to form the Internet, including ISPs, Internet Exchange Points, universities and organization networks
• Each dot represents an ASN (Autonomous System Number)
• There are 47,000+ ASNs currently active in the Internet
Source: peer1.com
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How to connect: option 1
– One Internet connection per site• Headquarters• Data Centres• Branches
– Use IP addresses from ISP
202.178.112.12401:3E00:DD::1
AS24478
Single-homing
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How to connect: option 2
– Multiple Internet connections to different ISPs and/or exchange points
– Use network’s own ASN and IP addresses
202.178.112.12401:3E00:DD::1
AS52378
Multi-homing
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Comparisons
Single-homing
Advantages• Cheaper and easier
to setup• Only need to deal
with one ISPChallenges
• Availability & reliability
• Performance• Limited availability
of IP address from the ISP
Multi-homing
Advantages• Better availability
and reliability• Load-balancing &
traffic engineering for improved performance
• Better network scalability
Challenges• Networking skill
required
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Multi-homing business opportunity
• Multiple upstream connections
• Local Internet Exchange Point (IXP) connectivity
• Data centre services
• Network consultancy
• NOC outsourcing
202.178.112.12401:3E00:DD::1
AS52378
.... .. .
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Local content
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Conclusion
• Most customers can start with single homing connection as it is simple to setup
• Customers that rely heavily on the Internet to run their business should be offered multi-homing connection for better availability, reliability and performance– Opportunity for value added service such as network consultancy
and NOC outsourcing.– Get their own ASNs and IP addresses from APNIC
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What being a Member means
About APNIC
What APNIC does
Priorities
Connecting to the Internet
Membership benefits
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Become an APNIC Member
Internet registry support
Access to MyAPNIC, Accurate registrations, Reverse DNS,
Security RPKI, DNSSEC, LEA engagement
TrainingFace-to-Face, eLearning, Focus
on IPv6, Network security, Routing
Technical ConferencesTwice a year, Opportunity to
network and learn from Internet experts
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More information
To find out more about APNIC membership, please contact our Member Services team
VoIP
CHAT
PHONE
www.apnic.net/helpdesk
+61 7 3858 3188
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