IPv6 Peering and the
Hurricane Electric Network
IPv6 Native Backbone – Massive Peering!
27th May 2008 – NAPLA 2008 at LACNIC XI
Salvador Bahia Brazil
Martin J. Levy, Director IPv6 Strategy
Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric – Roots and History
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Founded 14 years ago - ISP & datacenter operator
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Roots within the Silicon Valley high-tech community
Nationwide network in 1999
Starts IPv6 native and tunnel connectivity in 2001
European expansion in 2005
Purchased 206,000 sq ft datacenter building in 2006
Native IPv6 backbone in Q1 2007
Ranked #1 IPv6 backbone for BGP adjacencies in Q1 2008
Expands IPv6 TunnelBroker to nine US & European cities
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Supports and sponsors global open-software projects
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Hurricane Electric
The Network and its Peering
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Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Network Reach
All Hurricane Electric POPs are full IPv6 Native routing and peering
10Gbps
N by 10Gbps
N by 10Gbps
IPv6 Peering Locations
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IPv6 peering at all major
peering points in US and
Europe. Private and
public peering capacity
at 1Gbps & 10Gbps.
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Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Peering Points
Location
Exchange
100FE GigE
10GigE
IPv4 Address
IPv6 Address
SIX
PAIX Palo Alto
EQUINIX-SJC
Los Angeles, CA
Any2-LAX
LAIIX
GigE
EQUINIX-LAX
Chicago, Illinois
EQUINIX-CHI
Dallas, Texas
EQUINIX-DAL
New York
PAIX New York
NYIIX
NYCX
GigE
BIGEAPE
100FE
Washington, DC
EQUINIX-ASH
Miami, Florida
NOTA
London, England
LINX
LoNAP
GigE
Amsterdam, Netherlands AMS-IX
NL-IX
GigE
Paris, France
PaNAP
Frankfurt, Germany
DE-CIX
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
198.32.180.40
198.32.176.20
206.223.116.37
206.223.143.122
198.32.146.50
206.223.123.37
206.223.119.37
206.223.118.37
198.32.118.57
198.32.160.61
198.32.229.22
2001:478:180::40
2001:504:d::10
2001:504:0:1::6939:1
2001:504:13:0:0:0:0:1A
2001:504:a::a500:6939:1
2001:504:0:3::6939:1
2001:504:0:4::6939:1
2001:504:0:5::6939:1
2001:504:f::39
2001:504:1::a500:6939:1
Seattle, Washington
San Francisco Bay Area
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10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
10GigE
206.223.115.37
198.32.124.176
195.66.224.21
193.203.5.128
195.69.145.150
193.239.116.14
62.35.254.111
80.81.192.172
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2001:458:26:2::500
2001:504:0:2::6939:1
2001:478:124::176
2001:7f8:4:0::1b1b:1
2001:7f8:17::1b1b:1
2001:7f8:1::a500:6939:1
2001:7f8:13::a500:6939:1
2001:860:0:6::6939:1
2001:7f8::1b1b:0:1
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Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Addressing
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IPv6 addressing at NAP/IX’s
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Sometimes using BCD encoding
AS Number
Provider /32
2001:504:0:2::6939:1
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Sometimes by “duplicating” the IPv4 addresses
198.32.180.40
2001:478:180::40
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Hurricane Electric – Where to peer next?
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Simply put:
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We only expand the network into IPv6 enabled NAP/IX’s!
So where next?
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AtlantaIX (Atlanta, Georgia)
TorIX (Toronto, Canada)
… and more
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Hurricane Electric – Network Philosophy
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Single hardware partner – Foundry Networks
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MPLS capable POP to POP to POP
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20 months into IPv6 native network deployment
Partnered to “iron-out” operational issues
Efficient per-port costs (at 1Gbps & 10Gbps)
Full sflow data vs. “nothing” on “C” & “J” platform
Provides granular control of network bandwidth
Clean network design end-to-end – no legacy elements
Scalable!
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Hurricane Electric
Where did all this lead us?
(or – was it worth it?)
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CAIDA status as of January 2008 – Further improved since
Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Status (CAIDA)
See: http://www.caida.org/research/topology/as_core_network/ipv6.xml for full description and explanation.
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Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Status (CAIDA)
Center of CAIDA graph
Yes!
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Sprint (AS6175)
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EUNET-FINLAND (AS6667)
LINXTELECOM (AS3327)
Cooperación (AS27750)
NORDUNET (AS2603)
TITAN-NETWORKS (AS20640)
MAX-GIGAPOP (AS10886)
Telecom Italia (AS6762)
NL-BIT (AS12859)
NETCONNECT (AS7781)
AS-NLAYER (AS4436)
UUNET (AS701)
KEWLIO-DOT-NET (AS3344)
PIONIER-AS (AS8501)
France Telecom (AS5511)
KPN (AS286)
ASNET (AS9264)
HOTNIC (AS33437)
KDDI (AS2516)
China Next Gen Internet (AS23911)
AT&T (AS7018)
ISC (AS1280)
SWITCH (AS559)
UUnet EMEA (AS12702)
UOREGON-IX (AS6447)
APAN-JP (AS7660)
SpaceNet (AS5539)
ODN Softbank (AS4725)
SwissCom (AS3303)
TDC (AS3292)
GEANT (AS20965)
Telia (AS1299)
Internet-2 (AS11537)
Canble & Wireless (AS1273)
Level-3 (AS3356)
Asia Netcom (AS18084)
Wide (AS2500)
OpenCarrier (AS41692)
IIJ (AS2497)
TATA/VSNL/Teleglobe (AS6453)
LambdaNet (AS13237)
179
Global Crossing (AS3549)
Hurricane Electric #1 – 216 plus BGP associations
216
200
180
167
140
120
100
80
103
60
40
20
17
0
Data extracted from http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as6447/bgp-as-adj.txt.
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NTT (AS2914)
160
TowardRX (AS30071)
220
TISCALI (AS3257)
HURRICANE (AS6939)
# BGP Peering Adjacencies
Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Status (Oregon)
Hurricane Electric
Native peering vs. all those tunnels
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Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Tunnel Broker
Geographically diverse locations allowing customers best routing
10Gbps
N by 10Gbps
N by 10Gbps
IPv6 Tunnel Broker Locations
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Hurricane Electric – TunnelBroker stats
21
3/10/2008
3/11/2008
32
47
3/12/2008
Date
3/13/2008
46
67
3/14/2008
3/15/2008
43
3/16/2008
34
3/17/2008
28
3/18/2008
26
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
# User Signup's per day
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Google announcement matches IETF meeting timeline
Google's ipv6.google.com Announcement
vs. Signup's on IPv6 Tunnel Broker Service
from Hurricane Electric
Hurricane Electric – IPv6 Native Services
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IPv6 native router platform across all POP’s
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All IPv6 BGP customer connections are native
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IPv6 dual-stack & native DNS servers
IPv6 dual-stack & native NTP servers
IPv6 & IPv4 public looking glass & route servers
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24/7 NOC with IPv6 expertise
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Datacenter facilities with IPv6 hosting services
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Q&A
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Contact:
Martin J. Levy
Director, IPv6 Strategy
Hurricane Electric
760 Mission Court
Fremont, CA 94539, USA
http://he.net/
martin at he dot net
+1 (510) 580 4167
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