China Targeting First IPv6 Implementation for Commercial Usage
China has launched its own version of an Internet network through the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6). The network (CERNET2) has linked up 167 institutes and departments at 25 universities in 20 cities. Countries like US, Japan and South Korea are also researching and implementing IPv6 network infrastructures.
IPv6 is expected to be 100 times faster than the current Internet speeds (at speed of 2.5 gigabytes per second to 10 gigabytes per seconds). A Chinese company - Hua Wei is leading the IPv6 related hardware production where the five Chinese telecom operators, including China Telecom and China Mobile, are currently building IPv6 networks using the technology, with some of the networks expected to begin trial runs by the end of the year. This should be the first attempt of using IPv6 for commercial usage.
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