IPv6 rollout in 2005 for China and Japan, 2007 for Taiwan, 2011 for South Korea

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 10:25:07 -0800
From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>

Thursday 18 March 2004

IPv6 rollout in 2005 for China and Japan, 2007 for Taiwan, 2011 for South Korea
Daniel Shen, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DigiTimes.com
<http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2004/03/18&pages=A6&seq=31>

China, Japan, Taiwan and South Korea are all dedicating time and effort to 
the research and development of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) 
technology, according to the Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center 
(IEK), a division of Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute 
(ITRI). IPv6 is the replacement for the more than 20-year-old IPv4 
protocol, which is quickly running out of available addresses.

With support from the Chinese government, major carriers in China have 
started building multiple high-level networking platforms connected by 
IPv6, known as the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI), with completion 
scheduled for 2005. China is investing 1.4 billion yuan (around US$169 
million) to implement one of the world's largest IPv6 networks by 2010.

The Japanese government adopted its e-Japan policy last year and has 
allocated a research and development budget of two billion yen (around 
US$18 million) for IPv6. They anticipate initial IPv6 network rollouts in 
Japan to begin by 2005.

In Taiwan, the government will invest NT$26 billion (around US$78 million) 
into the development and testing of IPv6. Sources involved with the local 
IPv6 research and development project state that the rollout is slated for 
2007.

South Korea plans to implement full support for IPv6 technology before 
2011. The country made an initial investment of 83.6 billion won (around 
US$72 million) at the end of last year to begin the initial planning 
process for the integration of the next generation protocol into their 
existing internetworking infrastructure.

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