Juniper's Big IPv6 in China

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne () warpspeed com>
Date: December 3, 2005 5:57:46 AM EST
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Juniper's Big IPv6 in China
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Juniper's Big IPv6 in China
By Sean Michael Kerner
December 2, 2005
<http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3567921>
What may turn out to be the world's largest IPv6 network is going to  
be using Juniper Networks's routing platform to handle the next  
generation of Internet traffic.

Juniper has announced that the China Next Generation Internet (CNGI)  
IPv6 project will be powered by Juniper's M- and T-series routing  
platforms. Financial terms of the deal were not publicly disclosed.

China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) launched  
the CNGI initiative in 2003 with the goal of creating a countrywide  
IPv6 backbone. CNGI is projected to include 39 GigaPOP network points  
of presence covering 20 cities across China.

IPv6 is the successor to the 30-year-old IPv4 protocol which forms  
the backbone of the internet today. The new protocol includes many  
enhancements over its middle-aged predecessor, improving security,  
mobility and routing.

Juniper expects that its routers will enable services such as VoIP  
and video streaming, as well as provide for Multiprotocol Label  
Switching (MPLS) .

The JUNOS operating system, which powers the Juniper routers,  
includes support for IPv4 to IPv6 networking, which is seen in some  
areas of the world as a potential barrier to adoption of the next  
generation of IP.

Jeff Doyle, senior product marketing manager for JUNOS at Juniper,  
explained that the barriers to IPv6 vary depending on the region of  
the world you are in.

In Asia, it is seen as a clear necessity while in the U.S., according  
to Doyle, there is little feeling of urgency. Europe tends to be  
between these two views.

"The barriers to IPv6 are a clear model for profitability and  
concerns about seamless coexistence with IPv4," Doyle told  
internetnews.com. "As more and more network-enabled devices and  
services come onto the market and the price of bandwidth to the home  
and office continues to fall, the demand for IP addresses will make  
IPv6 profitable."

According to Doyle the U.S. lags behind much of the rest of the world  
in IPv6 deployment, primarily due to a lower urgency regarding  
existing IP address space and the lack of a government initiative  
similar to CNGI in China or the e-Japan initiative in Japan.

In June, a U.S. House of Representatives panel was told that Asia and  
Europe have more than $800 million invested in IPv6. The House panel  
was warned that without U.S. government leadership the U.S. economy  
could face potentially devastating consequences.

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