E-Commerce, New Economy & IPv6

S Sadagopan, IIIT-Bangalore, ss@iiitb.ac.inIPv6 Forum India

Bangalore, January 5, 2001

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Outline

E-Commerce – perspectivesNew Economy – perspectivesIPv6 – relevance in the context of e-

biz & new economyQ & A

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E-Commerce Technical Perspective

Web architecture (WWW)Open standards – HTTP, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java…

Browser as “universal” interface (Netscape & IE)

Web site, portal, vortal, online exchanges (Auto exchange, steel exchange, chemical exchange)

Search engines – Yahoo, Inktomi, GoogleMulti-lingual interface (Unicode support)

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E-Commerce Technical Perspective (cont)

E-commerceDigital commerce (music, software, journals)Collaborative commerce (Lotus)Mobile commerce (NTT DoCoMo)

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E-Commerce Technical Perspective (cont)

E-InfrastructureISP (Internet Service Provider) – VSNL, SatyamASP (Application Service Provider) – Global, DSQCSP (Commerce Service Provider) - ICICI

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E-Commerce Technical Perspective (cont)

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) - SAP, Ramco

SCM (Supply Chain Management) – i2 Technologies

CRM (Customer Relationship Management) - Siebel

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E-Commerce Business Perspective

Commerce to e-commerceBusiness to e-businessE-everything – e-books, e-procurement, e-

trade, e-education, e-learning, e-banking, e-books…

Rise and fall of Dot.Com companies - Amazon

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E-Commerce Business Perspective (contd..)

B2B (Business to business) E-CommerceB2C (Business to consumers) E –CommerceG2B (Government to Business) E –

CommerceE-Government

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E-Commerce Indian Market (Rs in Crores) (NASSCOM Survey)

Year Total B2C B2B

98-99 131 12 119

99-00 450 50 400

00-01 3,500 300 3,200

01-02 15,000 1,800 13,200

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Old Economy Perspective

Brick & MortarLong time to marketLarge intermediariesMass marketHigh cost

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New Economy Perspective

Click & Conquer (Rediff, HotMail)Short time to market (Pentium III)Dis-intermediation (Amazon)One-to-one market (Dell online, saregama)Low cost (Falling Internet pricing from VSNL)

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New Economy Perspective

Dot.Com companies – Yahoo, Amazon, CDNow, Fabmart, Rediff

Dot.Coming companies – Sun, IBM, CommerceOne, Ariba, i2, Infosys, Wipro, MindTree Consulting

Dot.Com’ed companies – GE, GM, Ashok Leyland, Tata Steel

Clicks rejuvenating bricks

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New Economy Perspective

Role of venture capitalNew generation entrepreneurshipSilicon valley modelEmergence of India, Ireland & IsraelKnowledge economy & Knowledge workers

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New Economy Perspective

Computing & Telecom at center-stage (Cisco)

Software dominance over hardware (Microsoft)

Services dominance over manufacturing (IBM)

Technology-driven business New business models (HotMail)

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New Economy Perspective

Largest job creation in New economyGrowth sustained by New EconomyPremium stocks are New Economy

dominated (TMT stocks as per Economic Times)

New age thinking & New age heroes – Bill Gates & Steven Case (AOL) - Murthy & Premji in India

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IPv6 Background

Phenomenal success of IP (IPv4)Scale - (hundreds to millions of hosts & networks)

Technology – Ethernet, ATM, Frame Relay…

Hardware – 10 Base 5, 10 Base 2, 10 Base T, Gigabit Ethernet, Wireless LAN IEEE 802.11b..

Heterogeneity – Ethernet, AppleTalk, Token Ring, DECNET, SNA..

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IPv6 Need

Address space limitations – 32 Bit to 128 bitExplosion of PCs globally 100 Million added every yearMobile devices - Cell phones, PDA – larger than PCUbiquitous computing – smart card, Java rings, Internet fridge, Net connected microwave…Desktop commerce – Internet Kiosk – very large user baseReusable IP address (like DHCP) may NOT work

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IPv6 Need

New generation applicationsAudio & VideoInternet Radio “dynamic” data handlingReal-time data support

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IPv6 Need

Collaboration technologyMultiple services on the same Net (anycast)

Routing performance for billion devices connected Net

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IPv6 Challenges

Very large user baseVery large Net transactionsNeed for low cost of transactionsHigh performance to support hyper growth new

economyDistributed securitySupport for digital services – certificate, pay per

use, use-based software licensing

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References

Sadagopan (e-education) www.iiitb.ac.in(Expert column) www.askallindia.com/infotechdesk

NASSCOM Site: www.nasscom.orgBusiness Week article

www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2000/nf20001031_810.htm