China building IPv6 infrastructure
by Alan Rose 
{ Sep 27th 2006 at 7:00PM }
China is looking to take the lead in the adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6, and steal a little thunder from the Internet2 consortium in the process. The China Education and Research Network has already connected nearly 200 universities and institutes using the new protocol, while China Telecom and China Mobile are expected to begin trial runs with IPv6 by the end of the year. This initiative is intended to reduce China's dependence on foreign hardware suppliers such as US-based Cisco Systems, and also help Chinese IT manufacturers become more competitive globally. Naturally, the gaming industry will also benefit from the advancements of IPv6, particularly in the mobile space where gamers on the go will have unique static IP addresses, in addition to improved data, voice, and video transmissions. Visit the IPv6 portal to learn more.
See also: China, Intel, and the WiMAX agenda
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Grindstone @ Sep 27th 2006 7:06PM
The sleeping dragon awakes!
What's next, world domination?
Oh...
vidGuy @ Sep 27th 2006 7:14PM
I don't know if I want "one-machine, one-IP" again. There is a certain security (through obscurity, I suppose) afforded due to NAT. But, I could see how IPv6 would benefit online gaming's ease of use - less/almost no configuration.
Although, China? I don't want them messing with Internet2, they already have 2 Internets, the real one and the censored one their citizenry can access.
razer @ Sep 27th 2006 8:06PM
Great! Just what we need, the country that is the biggest censor of internet content and violater of free speech to lead the charge.. ummm, no thanks. And it's great that China is trying to provide for themselves while ditching another American product. I wish the US would ditch most of their crappy products and start becoming self sufficient, they probably wouldn't like that. I miss the 'ol Made in the USA label which has now been replaced mostly with Made in China.. boooooo
yjs @ Sep 27th 2006 7:33PM
To razer, I'd like to see how the USA will function without importing cheap made in China goods.
razer @ Sep 27th 2006 8:08PM
China is changing. As long as they can keep their people controlled and have them working for slave wages, living in povery conditions then yes the US cannot compete with that. But China is changing, and those "cheap" goods are so cheap anymore.
Hunnter @ Sep 28th 2006 4:08AM
FINALLY someone is taking to IPv6.
Although as you mentioned vidGuy, when this eventually comes up, the "security" we once had with NAT will be gone...
But it doesn't kill those hardware firewalls which are just as good!
The only gripe i have with v6 is it is going to be damn near impossible remembering IPs!
And this is coming from someone with a pretty decent memory for crap like that, obscure codes and stuff.
I still wonder what happened to v5.
Its like nobody truly knows what happened to it, a failed experiment or something...
vidGuy @ Sep 28th 2006 10:20AM
@Hunnter
What, you can remember 192.168.5.5 but not 2001:0db8:00ca:0:0:6272:1428:57ab? ;)
Yeah, going from 4,294,967,296 unique addresses to
340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 unique addresses may cause some headaches. [note: these are wikis numbers, and I'm not checking 'em!]
Hardware firewalls are still good, but how many of them are going to be properly configured? What's nice is, IIRC, the objective is to keep IPv4 for private networks, so your entire internal network will still run on v4, providing NAT like I like it. I don't like putting up a device that, at the bare minimum of security, is accessible worldwide.
Majestic XII @ Sep 28th 2006 12:35PM
Hmm, SUNET (Sweden Student Network) have been running IPv6 native for the past 4 months and will be fully converted to IPv6 next month according to their site.
I was even running IPv6 as a tryout in the winter of 04.
Whats so different about their IPv6?
Majestic XII @ Sep 28th 2006 12:37PM
Typo, SUNET = Swedish University Computer Network