[opendtv] Will the IP transition beat the DTT transition?
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 17:08:00 -0400
IPv6 push doesn't have much pull in U.S.
American Corporations Don't Feel Moved to Move
Mike DeMaria
(07/15/2005 12:00 AM EDT)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D165702734
Federal agencies and Congress are pushing for it. The
major economic forces in Asia and the Pacific Rim are
mandating it. And in the last month or so, the IT
industry has seen more stumping for IPv6 adoption than
we saw in the previous decade of the protocol's
existence. But will all this hoopla speed the near-term
implementation of IPv6 in the United States? Probably
not.
In recent years, China, India, Japan and South Korea
all have advanced plans for making IPv6 their national
standard, and they've set aside substantial budgets to
do it. The attitude isn't surprising--these countries
are most in need of the additional addresses IPv6
provides. With the money and the incentive behind them,
these Asian nations are likely to deploy the
next-generation IP before most organizations in the
United States do.
But Congress, the media and some industry leaders don't
like the idea of America losing the IPv6 race. They say
we're falling behind technologically. As a result,
there's a new mandate for all government agencies to
deploy IPv6 by June 2008. There's always the
possibility of legislation, tax credits or budget
changes designed to accelerate IPv6 adoption nationwide.
Federal agencies have had trouble meeting such
aggressive IT mandates in the past, and IPv6 will
likely be no exception. So far, the Department of
Defense is the only agency that has begun to implement
the next-generation IP standards, and it will have
difficulty converting all its networks in less than
three years. Most other agencies haven't started making
plans or estimating costs.
Private enterprises are moving at an even slower rate,
and with good reason. For one thing, IPv6 offers very
little new functionality for U.S. organizations, which
have extended their address space through NAT (Network
Address Translation). No major U.S. service provider
offers IPv6, because there's so little demand. The
benefits of U.S. IPv6 will remain limited for the next
few years, and it's hard to fault any enterprise for
not switching anytime soon. Most have plenty of
addresses reserved.
With all the noise surrounding IPv6, should you be
considering the technology? If your business involves
regular interaction with Asian organizations, you might
want to get up to speed, but there's no urgency. The
impact of IPv6 will take time to be felt in Asia, and
it will be even longer before that impact reaches the
United States. Currently only a handful of U.S.
technologists need to worry about IPv6--those that
work in the federal government, carriers, researchers
and networking vendors. If you're not in one of those
categories, the IPv6 bug won't reach you for years to
come.
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