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From the Labto the Market:

EnablingCommercial Hosting on

The Company (I)

• Founded in 1996 by two entrepreneurs in Logroño (Spain).

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• 100% online business model.

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• 100% online business model.

• Our mission: to provide online presence to SMBs, helping to break barriers:

• Economic barriers:

- Improving quality/price rate.

- Enabling the automation of the processes involved.

• Technological barriers:

- Developing user-friendly interfaces.

- Handing over the control to the customer.

- Providing our customers with new technologies.

The Company (II)

Historical development:

• 1996: Internet Access Provider.

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• 1998: Shift to domain registration and web-hosting.

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• 2000: Lead position in the Spanish Market.

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• 2001: Major technological breakthroughs:

• The building of our own Internet Data Center (IDC).

• Arsys becomes Autonomous System (AS20718).

• Deployment of our own IP backbone.

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• 2002: Consolidation:

• IBM Premier Partner.

• Microsoft ASP Partner.

• ICANN Accredited Registrar.

• Launch of Linux hosting services.

• Launch of Dedicated Hosting services.

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• 2002: Consolidation:

• IBM Premier Partner.

• Microsoft ASP Partner.

• ICANN Accredited Registrar.

• Launch of Linux hosting services.

• Launch of Dedicated Hosting services.

• 2003: Deployment of IPv6 hosting services.

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Our services:

• Domain name registration:

• Generic domain names (.com, .net, .org, .info, .biz).

• Country code top level domains (.es, .fr.).

• Shared hosting.

• Dedicated hosting.

• Co-location (housing).

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Our services:




• Web Hosting:

• Shared hosting.



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Our services:




• Web Hosting:

• Other services:

• Connectivity and Internet access.

• Application Service Providers (ASP).

• E-commerce.

• Shared hosting.



Market Position

• Lead position in the Spanish market.

EUROS CUSTOMERS

10.500.000

7.200.000

4.500.000

57.000273.000

1.284.000200 2.150

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17.500

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Revenue

Customers

Market Position


EUROS CUSTOMERS

10.500.000

7.200.000

4.500.000

57.000273.000

1.284.000200 2.150

4.075

10.200

17.500

33.000

0

2.000.000

4.000.000

6.000.000

8.000.000

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35.000

Revenue

Customers

• 10.5 M. euros revenue in 200250 % growth over 2001

Market Position


EUROS CUSTOMERS

10.500.000

7.200.000

4.500.000

57.000273.000

1.284.000200 2.150

4.075

10.200

17.500

33.000

0

2.000.000

4.000.000

6.000.000

8.000.000

10.000.000

12.000.000

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20020

5.000

10.000

15.000

20.000

25.000

30.000

35.000

Revenue

Customers


• + 33,000 customers71% growth over 2001

Market Position


EUROS CUSTOMERS

10.500.000

7.200.000

4.500.000

57.000273.000

1.284.000200 2.150

4.075

10.200

17.500

33.000

0

2.000.000

4.000.000

6.000.000

8.000.000

10.000.000

12.000.000

1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 20020

5.000

10.000

15.000

20.000

25.000

30.000

35.000

Revenue

Customers


• + 33,000 customers71% growth over 2001

• + 65,000 registered domain names.

INFRASTRUCTURE: Internet Data Center (IDC):

• Permanent power supply.

• Redundant air-conditioning system, humidity control, fire protectionand card access system.

• Logic security (firewalls , IDS).

Technical assets (I)

INFRASTRUCTURE: Internet Data Center (IDC):

• Permanent power supply.

• Redundant air-conditioning system, humidity control, fire protectionand card access system.

• Logic security (firewalls , IDS).

Technical assets (I)

CONNECTIVITY

• Redundant connectivity to the Internet (n x STM-1).

• Autonomous System on both IPv4 and IPv6 (RIPE).

• Multihomed network using BGP4.

• Members of the Internet Exchange Points:

Espanix, LINX, NAP

Research and Development Department.

Technical assets (II)



Proprietary technological development:

• Design of the Internet Data Center.

• Domain registration system (ICANN).

• Development of hosting services (Linux and Windows).



Proprietary technological development:

• Design of the Internet Data Center.

• Domain registration system (ICANN).

• Development of hosting services (Linux and Windows).

2000 - 2003 : Research and Development investment amountedto 5.6 Million euros sponsored and/or subsidised by:

ACCREDITATIONS

Acknowledgements

Emprendedor Emergente

ERNST & YOUNG

Mercurio

Club de Marketing de la Rioja

PARTNERSHIP

INSTITUTIONAL BACKUP

ASSOCIATIONS

AWARDS

Arsys and IPv6

• We aim to provide our customers with the newest technologies.

Arsys and IPv6


• IPv6 will be the lingua franca in the Internet of the future.

Arsys and IPv6



• IPv6 works and is deployable now… ...but most players of this market don’t have access to it.

Arsys and IPv6




• Arsys is the gateway to the Internet of the future……NOW.

Arsys and IPv6




• Arsys is the gateway to the Internet of the future……NOW.

• The implementation of IPv6 hosting services was undertaken under

the advice of Consulintel.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (I)

• The transition of IPv4 to IPv6 will not happen overnight.



• There will be a period of transition when both protocols willbe in use over the same infrastructure.



• There will be a period of transition when both protocols willbe in use over the same infrastructure.

• There might be organizations or hosts within organizations thatwill continue to use IPv4 indefinitely.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (II)

• The inherent lack of dependencies between IPv4 and IPv6 hostsand IPv4 and IPv6 routing infrastructure requires a number ofmechanisms that allow seamless coexistence.



• To coexist with an IPv4 infrastructure and to provide eventualmigration to an IPv6-only infrastructure, the following mechanismsare used:



• To coexist with an IPv4 infrastructure and to provide eventualmigration to an IPv6-only infrastructure, the following mechanismsare used:

• Dual IP layer or Dual Stack.

• IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling.

• DNS infrastructure.

First steps on the road to transition:

• There must be a top-tier ISP with allocated production IPv6 address space.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (III)

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Tasks on the backbone:

• Upgrading backbone routers to support native IPv6.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (IV)

Juniper Network M-Series routersJunos Software Release 5.6


• Upgrading backbone routers to support native IPv6.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (IV)

Juniper Network M-Series routersJunos Software Release 5.6

• Designing and implementing IPv6 backbone coexisting withIPv4 backbone infrastructure.

• IPv6 over ATM PVCs.

• New protocols: OSPFv3, MBGP.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (V)


•Implementing IPv6 network connectivity:

• Native IPv6 interconnections using BGP4+ atInternet Exchange Points.

• Tunnelled interconnections (configured IPv6 overIPv4 tunnels) at Internet Exchange Points.

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (VI)

Tasks on Local Network:

• Designing and implementing a minimumsecurity infrastructure. IPv6 firewall.

• Linux + IPv6/IPv4 + Netfilter6 (ip6tables).

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (VI)


• Designing and implementing a minimumsecurity infrastructure. IPv6 firewall.

• Linux + IPv6/IPv4 + Netfilter6 (ip6tables).

• Designing and implementing IPv6 routing and switching architecture

• Linux + IPv6/IPv4 + Radvd

IPv6/IPv4: Coexistence (VII)


•Upgrading DNS infrastructure.

• Linux + Bind 9.2.1.





• Upgrading applications to be independent of IPv6 or IPv4.

• Server Monitoring System (proprietary).

• Control Panel (proprietary).

• Automatic Server Management System (proprietary).





• Upgrading applications to be independent of IPv6 or IPv4.

• Server Monitoring System (proprietary).

• Control Panel (proprietary).

• Automatic Server Management System (proprietary).

• Installing dual stack nodes on Windows Server 2003 and Linux platforms.

IPv6 Backbone

IPv6 Local Network

IPv6 Services

• Scope:

• + 33.000 customers.

• + 65.000 hosted domain names.

IPv6 Services

• Scope:

• + 33.000 customers.

• + 65.000 hosted domain names.

• Initial stage services:

• Shared Web Hosting on Windows Server 2003 with IPv6 support.

• Shared Web Hosting on Linux with IPv6.

• Analog/ISDN dial-up access to IPv6 Internet.

Shared Web Hosting Service with IPv6 support


• Hardware: IBM xSeries model x335.



• Two available platforms: Windows and Linux.



• Two available platforms: Windows and Linux.

• Latest technologies for Web Servers: IIS 6 (Internet Information Server) and Apache 2.0.

Analog/ISDN dial-up access to IPv6 Internet (I)

• Scenario #1:

IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel

Native IPv6 traffic

Tunnel Broker

IPv4: 217.76.136.222

IPv6/IPv4 User

IPv4:217.76.139.80

IPv6: 2001:ba0:100:8b50::/64

IPv6 User

IPv6: 2001:x:y:z::aaaa:bbbb

Analog/ISDN dial-up access to IPv6 Internet (II)

• Scenario #2:

IPv6 in IPv4 tunnel

Native IPv6 traffic

Tunnel Broker

IPv4: 217.76.136.222

IPv6 User

IPv6: 2001:x:y:z::aaaa:bbbb

IPv6/IPv4 User

IPv4:217.76.139.80

IPv6: 2001:ba0:100:8b50::/64

Tel. +34 902 11 55 30 [email protected]

Álvaro Torrente (Director of Corporate Relations)

Manuel Amutio (Technical Director)

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