E-Commerce, New Economy & IPv6
S Sadagopan, IIIT-Bangalore, ss@iiitb.ac.in
IPv6 Forum India
Bangalore, January 5, 2001
Outline
E-Commerce – perspectives
New Economy – perspectives
IPv6 – relevance in the context of e-biz &
new economy
Q & 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, Google
Multi-lingual interface (Unicode support)
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E-Commerce
Technical Perspective (cont)
E-commerce
Digital commerce (music, software, journals)
Collaborative commerce (Lotus)
Mobile commerce (NTT DoCoMo)
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E-Commerce
Technical Perspective (cont)
E-Infrastructure
ISP (Internet Service Provider) – VSNL, Satyam
ASP (Application Service Provider) – Global, DSQ
CSP (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-commerce
Business to e-business
E-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-Commerce
B2C (Business to consumers) E –Commerce
G2B (Government to Business) E –Commerce
E-Government
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E-Commerce Indian Market (Rs in Crores)
(NASSCOM Survey)
Year
98-99
Total
131
B2C
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B2B
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 & Mortar
Long time to market
Large intermediaries
Mass market
High 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 capital
New generation entrepreneurship
Silicon valley model
Emergence of India, Ireland & Israel
Knowledge 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 economy
Growth sustained by New Economy
Premium 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 bit
Explosion of PCs globally 100 Million added every year
Mobile devices - Cell phones, PDA – larger than PC
Ubiquitous computing – smart card, Java rings, Internet
fridge, Net connected microwave…
Desktop commerce – Internet Kiosk – very large user
base
Reusable IP address (like DHCP) may NOT work
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IPv6
Need
New generation applications
Audio & Video
Internet Radio
“dynamic” data handling
Real-time data support
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IPv6
Need
Collaboration technology
Multiple services on the same Net (anycast)
Routing performance for billion devices connected
Net
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IPv6
Challenges
Very large user base
Very large Net transactions
Need for low cost of transactions
High performance to support hyper growth new economy
Distributed security
Support for digital services – certificate, pay per use, usebased software licensing
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References
Sadagopan (e-education) www.iiitb.ac.in
(Expert column) www.askallindia.com/infotechdesk
NASSCOM Site: www.nasscom.org
Business Week article
www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/oct2000/nf2
0001031_810.htm
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