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[Press release] – CMC Telecom leads in IPv6 transition on Cloud in Vietnam

May 06, 2019

On the morning of May 6, 2019, on the occasion of IPv6 Vietnam Day, CMC Telecom announced the official launch of IPv6 on the cloud computing platform CMC Cloud and Data Center service. CMC Telecom is the first service provider in Vietnam to convert IPv6 on the cloud.

As a TOP 4 telecommunications – information technology service provider in Vietnam, CMC Telecom realized the limitations of IPv4 protocol over IPv6 so it officially converted IPv6 on Cloud and Data Center services. from the beginning of 2019 with the desire to bring customers the use of the service with the best experience. In fact, IPv4 resources are gradually depleted due to huge IPv4 consumption from countries and territories with high growth rates on the Internet, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. When IPv4 is exhausted, the Internet community clearly sees the deployment of IPv6 networks as an inevitable method to ensure the sustainable development of the Internet. Compared to IPv4, IPv6 protocol shows many advantages in cost, technology, security, good routing, … overcome the limitations of IPv4. Moreover, IPv6 resources can be considered limitless to help maintain stable Internet operation in the future, users no longer have to worry about IP shortage issues like when using IPv4.

The IPv6 transition for services on CMC Cloud has a roadmap of about 1 year, including: Promoting IPv6 to cloud to other service providers (ISPs); When there is an IPv6 band for CMC Cloud, CMC Cloud will declare the IPv6 range for the virtual server (VM Cloud); Announcing the trial version (beta) IPv6 to the cloud; End of beta.

Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) has introduced and trained service providers in Vietnam with knowledge of IPv6 for a few years so the staff of CMC Telecom has been sure to apply when deploying. However, because this is the first time CMC Telecom’s team has deployed IPv6 to the actual network, they have to learn a lot, at the same time, discuss with the partners about the configuration, ask for more experiences from other network operators. world to apply with CMC Telecom. CMC Telecom’s team has been supported and consulted in terms of technology by experts from TIME dotCom strategic partner (Top 2 Telecommunication Group in Malaysia).

Currently, CMC Cloud is providing IPv6 support services including: Elastic Compute, Cloud for AI, S3 Storage. In it, Elastic Compute is a service that allows customers to initiate on demand a variety of virtual server resources. CMC Cloud provides Virtual Compute virtual servers that support IPv6 so that devices “communicate” with each other without barriers. With Cloud for AI service, CMC Cloud provides GPU cards for customers to support artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (Machine Learning), IoT, … S3 Storage service stores content resources such as videos , images, data from devices with IPv6 addresses quickly, easily and securely.

Mr. Nguyen Duc Dung – Deputy Director of the Value Added Business Center, CMC Telecom shared at the event: “During the implementation of IPv6 on CMC Cloud, we found that CMC Telecom’s customers are very interested in IPv6 transition, especially customers who need to use multiple IP addresses such as website and hosting companies, companies that do IoT (computers, devices such as cameras, sensors, household appliances) use …). After transforming IPv6, CMC Cloud can provide customers with many different IPv6 addresses, compared to IPv4, IPv6 has many advantages in terms of configuration costs and security. ”

Mr. Nguyen Duc Dung – Deputy Director of Center for Value Added Business, CMC Telecom

In January 2017, CMC Telecom officially launched CMC Cloud with modern KVM virtualization technology, trusted by Amazon, IBM, Alibaba …

Unlike other cloud platforms based on pure software, CMC Telecom with the advantage of being a telecom provider has infrastructure directly connected to the Data Center of large cloud providers. In Vietnam, CMC Telecom is currently the only unit providing data connection services directly to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google and IBM. CMC Telecom can flexibly provide services with packages from 5Mbps base 10Gbps to Data Center directly to customers. CMC Telecom owns 3 neutral Tier 3 Data Center with the unique PCI DSS security certificate in Vietnam. For small businesses without data centers, it is still possible to place data centers in Vietnam on CMC Telecom’s infrastructure with secure transmission lines.

CMC Telecom owns 3 neutral Tier 3 Data Center with the unique PCI DSS security certificate in Vietnam

CMC Telecom is currently a Gold Partner in providing Microsoft cloud computing services in Vietnam. CMC Telecom is also the only unit chosen by IBM to partner with IBM Cloud Private Service Management Portal in Vietnam. Through CMC Multi-Cloud platform, CMC Telecom can easily deploy solutions for Cloud consumer demand quickly, optimally for optimal cost and system administration for customers.

Seminar on Vietnam IPv6 Day 2019 (held on May 6, 2019 at the JW Marriott Hotel, Hanoi) organized by Vietnam Internet Network Information Center with the theme “Opening and switching services to use IPv6 in State agencies and organizations and digital content service enterprises ”.
As of April 6, 2019, Vietnam’s application rate reached 32.37% with more than 17 million IPv6 users, exceeding the 2019 plan (30%). With this result, Vietnam ranked 2nd in ASEAN region, 6th in Asia-Pacific region and 9th in the world (after Belgium, America, India, Germany, Malaysia, Greece, Japan and Taiwan). ) about application level of IPv6 deployment.