• Anna Mulingbayan and PubuduJayasinghe

• 24 January 2018

• LAO ICT EXPO 2018

Your IP

Your Network

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre

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A global, open,

stable and secure

Internet that serves

the entire Asia

Pacific community

APNIC and the other RIRs

APNIC region

We serve 56

economies and

6,300+ Members (as

of Sept 2017)

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Where do IP addresses come from?

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LIR

End

user

Eg :

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Members

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As at 31 Dec

Who are our Members?

Who are our APNIC Members in Lao?

Source: https://www.apnic.net/about-apnic/organization/structure/members/

How do APNIC Members use IP

addresses?• Data is sent over the Internet in discrete packets

– Each packet can be a few bytes, a few hundred bytes, or even larger

• Packets are sent from the ‘source’ to the ‘destination’– When streaming a YouTube movie on your mobile phone:

• The YouTube server is mainly the source

• Your mobile phone is mainly the destination

• Every source and destination on the Internet must have an IP address– IPv4 example 203.0.113.15 (32-bit number)

– IPv6 example 2001:db8:200:ff:1:dc:77:ab (128-bit number)

IP addresses and ASNs

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Connecting to the Internet

202.178.112.0/24

2400:3E00:DD::/48202.178.112.0/24

2400:3E00:DD::/48

Multi-homed network

MAY have a need for BGP and public ASN

Single-homed network

No need for public ASN

Why multihome with BGP and use a public

ASN?

Good interconnection strategy can

lower operation costs

Understanding your network traffic

could result in better overall network

experience

Path diversification allows you to

better evaluate interconnection

options and improve resiliency

Cost

Performance

Resilience

View within an AS: Telco/ISP

View within an AS: University

View within an AS: Data centre

View within an AS: Corporate

labs.apnic.net

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Geoff Huston

IPv6 capability

in the Asia Pacific

Thailand68.86 million population

Cambodia15.76 million population

Lao6.758 million population

Visible ASNs

Industry ASN Date Description

ISP AS10226 2003-07-08 Enterprise of Telecommunications Lao

Govt/Regulator/Municipality AS38528 2007-03-28 Lao National Internet Committe

ISP AS136748 2017-06-14 Etern Laos Communication Technology Sole Co .,Ltd

Telecommunications/Mobile operator AS9873 2000-02-07 Lao Telecommunication Co Ltd

Hosting/Data Centre AS17804 2016-12-30 LAO DC IT SOLE COMPANY LIMITED

Hosting/Data Centre AS55508 2010-05-06 National Internet Center (NIC)

Telecommunications/Mobile operator AS133500 2014-05-26 Lao Gateway Co., Ltd

Academic/Education/Research AS45906 2009-09-01 National University of Laos

ISP AS23900 2005-04-18 Planet Online Laos

ISP AS135587 2016-06-22 S-Tech Development Co., Ltd

Telecommunications/Mobile operator AS55511 2010-05-11 Vimpelcom Lao Co., Ltd.

Telecommunications/Mobile operator AS131267 2009-12-08 Star Telecom

ISP

AS24337

AS132513 2005-02-18 Sky Telecom State Company

Observation

• The networks in Lao are a good mix of ISPs, telcos and hosting companies

• If the Lao Internet is going to grow similarly to other economies in the South-east Asia region, are we likely to see more academic and corporate companies deploy ASNs?– Universities?

– Hosting/data centres?

– System integrators?

– Banks?

– And so forth

Looking ahead

• Regional trends– Keeping traffic local by establishing multiple or bilateral peering

arrangements– IXPs

– Rootservers

– Growth of local content– eGov initiatives

– Hosting/cloud services

– Domestic eCommerce

– Domestic/regional news

– Entertainment (games, movies and so forth)

– Caching of international content

Learn more about who’s peering where at: http://www.peeringdb.com

What are your thoughts?

• What’s the Internet experience like in Lao?

– From the point of view of consumers, academics, corporations, and

service providers?

• What will Lao’s Internet infrastructure look like in the future?

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BKNIX Member Gathering

SANOG 28, Member Gathering

• Online training

courses

• Face-to face

workshops and

tutorials

• Technical outreach

training.apnic.net

apnic.academy

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• Launched April 2017 (Moodle)

• Free public access

• ‘Introduction to CyberSecurity’

‘Internet Resource Management’

• Registered: 1,306

• Enrolled: 1,302

• Certified: 350

• Coming:

• IPv4/IPv6 Routing

• More Security/CERTs

blog.apnic.net

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Next conference

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https://2018.apricot.net/register

APRICOT 2019

Republic of Korea

18 to 28 February 2019

APNIC 46, New Caledonia

September 2018

What to expect at APNIC conferences

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• Key note presentations

• Technical workshops

• Tutorials

• Policy SIG

• Women in ICT

• Decision making

• Elections

• Entertainment !

fellowship.apnic.net

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Network globally and build

your profile in the region!

• Air fare

• Accommodation

• Conference registrations

• Workshop registrations

Want to be an APNIC Member ?

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50% discount

for Lao

APNIC is at

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