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The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 in the country needs to begin at the operation level such as Tier 1 Service Providers and the Internet Service Providers says Unwired Chief Technology Officer Reinhard Sanjeet Lal.

Mr Lal is positive that within the next 6 to 12 months a large number of companies in the country will be transiting from IPv4 to IPv6 including Unwired Fiji.

If people in Fiji and the rest of the Pacific Islands do not upgrade to IPv6 they will be missing out on connectivity and peering to the rest of the world.

To list one of the many benefits, IPv6 provides interoperability and mobility capabilities which are already widely embedded in network devices.

IPv6 and IPv4 are separate protocols, IPv6 is an Internet Layer protocol for packet switched internet works, a large address space which contains 128 bit addresses comparing to 32 for IPv4.

The new address space thus supports 2128(about 3.4×1038) addresses.

Businesses and organizations in Fiji and the rest of the Pacific will need equipment support and software’s that support the IPv6 stacks if they are to migrate to IPv6.

Mr Lal stressed that in major transitional cases there will be a need for IT specialists and experts but this depends on the skills of the organization internally.

Many businesses are aware of IPv6 while some others are still left in the dark.