Telecom Lead Asia: 23 percent ISPs surveyed throughout
North America, Japan, Europe and Latin America have already implemented IPv6,
while 35 percent say they plan to do so in 2012, according to Nominum, a
provider of integrated DNS-based applications and solutions.
Nominum surveyed 67 top ISPs throughout North America,
Japan, Europe and Latin America with a combined reach of 110 million
households. The survey talks about plans and concerns of ISPs regarding the
transition from IPv4 to IPv6.
The survey found that 23 percent ISPs have already have
already implemented IPv6, while 35 percent say they plan to do so in 2012.
39 percent ISPs surveyed say they plan to implement IPv6
in 2013 or later.
The survey revealed major regional differences in IPv6 deployment
plans. Every Japanese ISP surveyed has deployed IPv6. On the other hand, only
25 percent of North American respondents have deployed IPv6, but 100 percent
plan to by year-end.
The survey found that just 48 percent of European
respondents plan to deploy IPv6 by year-end and only 20 percent of Latin
American ISPs plan to deploy IPv6 by year-end.
The survey further added that European ISPs appear to
have the greatest risk of not making the transition in time since under current
policies the Regional Internet Registry for Europe (RIPE NCC) is projected to
run out of IPv4 addresses later this year.
Nominum says that IPv6 accommodates dramatic revenue
growth in IP-enabled devices, i.e. the Connected Home, M2M, etc. It also
supports growth into new or expanding markets.
Furthermore, IPv6 offers protocol improvements such as
better multi-cast support and larger packet sizes enable high performance
applications and lower overhead for high performance data transfers for video
and cloud access.
“IPv6 represents the biggest change in IP Networking
since the start of the Internet. Most people know it is a necessity to keep the
Internet moving and growing, but don’t realize how it can be used to improve
our favorite applications. It also presents a huge opportunity for operators,
content providers and enterprises to harness powerful business benefits
associated with the ‘new’ Internet,” said Craig Sprosts, leader of Fixed
Broadband Solutions for Nominum.
Nominum unveils Mobile Network and User Security Solution for
telecom operators
Recently, Nominum unveiled its Mobile Network and
User Security Solution.
editor@telecomlead.com
