Faced with a far more urgent need to support more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the Asian nations of Japan, South Korea and China are looking to lead the move to IPv6, considered by many to be the next-generation Internet. Unlike the United States — which still has a bountiful supply of the Internet addresses that connect separate networks and devices to the Internet — the Asian countries face a serious shortage of IP addresses, largely because of the mass popularity of mobile phones and other devices that have consumed the region’s more limited amount of IP addresses.
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Asia Looks for Lead on Next-Gen Internet
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 31, 2003 06:40 AMFaced with a far more urgent need to support more Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the Asian nations of Japan, South Korea and China are looking to lead the move to IPv6, considered by many to be the next-generation Internet. Unlike the United States — which still has a bountiful supply of the Internet addresses that connect separate networks and devices to the Internet — the Asian countries face a serious shortage of IP addresses, largely because of the mass popularity of mobile phones and other devices that have consumed the region’s more limited amount of IP addresses.