Mr. Yves Poppe   - Directory, Business Development  IP strategy – VSNL               

Yves Poppe has spent his more than 35 years career in data communications with both manufacturers and telecom carriers.  Representing Teleglobe on the Canarie (Canadian R&E network) Policy Board, Yves supported the  early IPv6 efforts  including the creation of 6TAP in Chicago. Teleglobe became a founding member of the IPv6 Forum . Yves Poppe  represents the Corporation at the IPv6 Forum and is steering committee member of the North American IPv6 taskforce (NAV6TF).Yves Poppe  represents Teleglobe in TERENA,  Internet2, Canarie and APAN and participated in the GSM Association IPv6 project.  He  is a frequent presenter on the evolution of telecommunications and the internet and the key role of IPv6. His most recent interventions on the IPv6 topic include   IPv6 summits in  Senegal and the Solomon Islands, as well as the  SANOG/APNIC and AFRINIC meetings in India and South Africa. Yves also regularly covers the  evolution of subsea communication capacity and international telecommunications  at sessions of TEMIC (Telecommunications Executive Management Institute of Canada), most recently in Malawi and Egypt.VSNL international, part of the Tata Group acquired Teleglobe in February 2006 and the Company operates under the name Tata Communications since February 13^th 2008. 

Presentation Title: Early IPv6 deployment in a Tier one global network: was it worth it? 

Abstract:

This intervention will explore the experience gained by the early promotion, adoption and deployment of  IPv6 in a global wholesale environment.  

As Board member of the Canadian Research and Education Network, Canarie, then Teleglobe,  was an early promoter of IPv6 and supported the funding of the 6TAP project and provided the infrastructure for the first native transoceanic IPv6 connection. Teleglobe became a founding member of the IPv6 Forum and announced its plans in March 2000. Early deployment started in 2003 and 6PE deployment started in 2004 with commercial service. In 2006 the core started to be migrated to dual stack and by now 90% of the globe spanning AS6453 network is dual stack. Teleglobe was acquired by the VSNL International, part of the Tata Group,  in February 2006 and enabling  IPv6 on the Indian domestic IP network (AS4755) which covers 120 cities is now underway. Since February 2008  the company now operates globally under the name Tata Communications.   

 

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