What are some of the most widely faced challenges in 2010? And what will Telstra be doing to help our customers overcome them? As a testament to our ongoing network investments and upgrades – and Telstra’s commitment to ensure our customers are armed with first-class solutions – a number of exciting developments are in store.
In last month’s issue we revealed Telstra International had completed a project of work to enhance resilience on IP VPN PoPs throughout the Asia Pacific region and beyond. We now support dual, redundant PoP access and connectivity on IP VPN services on PoPs in the following locations:
- Australia , Sydney
- Australia, Perth
- Hong Kong, Kowloon & Wan Chai
- Indonesia, Jakarta
- Japan, Tokyo
- Korea, Seoul
- Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
- New Zealand, Auckland
- Philippines, Manila
- Singapore
- Taiwan, Taipei
- Thailand, Bangkok
- United Kingdom, London
- United States (East), New York & Newark
- United States (West), Los Angeles & San Jose
- Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi
The real benefit to our customers is we now offer a greater diversity of choice in design options. Customers will be able to build dual access to diverse PoPs to enable better reliability and resilience with no single point of failure in the IP VPN network infrastructure at our dual PoP locations.
In order to ensure we continue to maintain our ongoing investments and responsiveness to advances in the market there are two other exciting developments we’d like to highlight which are due to be released in 2010.
The move to IPv6
Did you know the internet has been fast running out of IP addresses? All telcos currently support IPv4 (a 32 bit address), but with steadily increasing internet use the number of available IP addresses has been shrinking. In order to make sure we never reach a point where all the IP addresses are taken a new global standard internet addressing range has been developed.
The new addressing range will use a 128 bit address, opening up 2128 addresses available, or 340 trillion, trillion, trillion, or enough to give multiple IP addresses for generations to come. Telstra International will be actively moving to support IPv6 addresses in 2010.
Introducing Multicast
Another ongoing issue for customers is optimisation of their network by reducing traffic and network congestion. Multicast which is the ability to send one IP packet to multiple receivers can achieve just that. Multicast enables companies to reduce the amount of bandwidth required to send a data stream to many recipients.
A key benefit of Multicast is it also increases customers cost savings and performance. What at one time would have required a data stream 10 times to 10 different end-points can now be achieved with only one stream being sent with copies at each router point until the stream reaches the end-points. Multicast is directed towards distributed multimedia applications, for example streaming video, IPTV, distance learning and videoconferencing to name a few. The launch of Multicast is planned for early in the second half of 2010.
If you’d like some further information about how to take advantage of the benefits of the dual PoPs for your business, or would like more information about our IPv6 or Multicast offerings as soon as they are released, please contact your Account Manager.