p2pnet - rss feed: China’s new IPv6 Net
p2pnet.net News:- China says it’s achieved a world-first with its next generation Internet network CERNET2, the largest Internet Protocol Version 6 network anywhere.
“Compared with the current IP Version 4, the new version is capable of allocating endless IP addresses, and features a transportation speed of 10G per second, 1,000 times faster than the current speed, says state news agency Xinhuanet.
“By creating a digital network in their own homes, in the near future Chinese people could use it to enjoy video and audio communications, information resources, and the benefits of far-away education and health care services,” it says.
CERNET2 links up 25 universities in 20 cities, says China Daily, going on:
“ The speed in the backbone network reaches 2.5 to 10 gigabits per second and connects the universities at a speed of 1 to 10 gigabits per second.
“A trial on CERNET2 between Beijing and Tianjin on December 7 achieved a speed of 40 gigabits per second, the highest in the world in real applications.
One of the biggest benefits big benefits of IPv6 from China’s perspective is: it will solve the problem of the shortage of IP addresses in the country.
“In the current Internet based on IPv4 technology, the United States controls 74 per cent of 4 billion IP addresses, while the amount that China has is only equal to a campus of the University of California, despite its 80 million Internet users,” says the story.
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See:-
world-first - IP version 6 network opens in China, Xinhuanet, December 26, 2004
shortage - China launches new generation Internet, China Daily, December 278, 2004
December 28th, 2004 at 12:59 am
Maybe if the government had stood firm and told the RIAA/MPAA where to put their corporate line, the internet would have developed more quickly in the US, rather than being smeared as the almighty tool for pirates.