| Global IPv6 gathers momentum |
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| Written by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 20 September 2005 | |
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IPv6, Internet Protocol version 6 is expected to eventually replace the current IPv4 whose main limitation is the number of possible addresses. IPv6 will increase this number by several orders of magnitude, obviating the need for address sharing techniques such as network address translation, and allowing potentially every networkable device such as a cellphone or laptop to be shipped with its own IP address. The Teleglobe IPV6 service serves over 20 major Internet service providers (ISPs) and content providers in 15 countries including Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Senegal and Spain. Teleglobe, once Canada's monopoly International carrier, is being acquired by VSNL, once India's monopoly international carrier, and now a subsidiary of Indian conglomerate, Tata Group. Teleglobe says that, after a successful pilot service this past year, involving ten customers on four continents and transmission over both cable and satellite, it is now offering commercial, generally available IPv6 global transit service with SLA to ISPs and content providers worldwide via a selection of interfaces including IPv6/IPv4 dual-stack, IPv6 tunnelling over IPv4, IPv6 tunnel broker and native IPv6. According to Latif Ladid, president of the Global IPv6 Forum, "the introduction of commercial IPv6 transit by a tier 1 global carrier is a major contribution to the acceleration of IPv6 adoption worldwide and the realisation of associated new service revenue opportunities. Yves Poppe, director IP strategy at Teleglobe, claimed that :"this general availability for IPv6 reflects the transition from research and education exercise to commercial value, from pilot operation to business operation...[and] will help usher a new growth phase in the Internet in an increasingly mobile world with ever more versatile multimedia end-user devices." Asia Netcom trial video over IPv6 Asia Netcom, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Chinese incumbent telecommunications service provider, China Netcom is to provide an end-to-end IPv6 link between Tokyo and Beijing using capacity on its own subsea network and through a 155Mbps circuit between Hong Kong and Beijing from its parent, China Netcom in what it says will be one of the first live trials of transporting broadcast-quality video over an IPv6 infrastructure between China and Japan, as part in an experiment to demonstrate the ability of the next-generation Internet to enable high-quality video communications worldwide. Asia Netcom claims to be one of the first operators in the region to launch commercial IPv6-based services and is offering an end-to-end IPv6 video streaming service with partner, NEC.
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