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Pacific Islands Telecommunications Association is positive that Fiji will follow global trends and transit from IPv4 to IPv6 sooner rather than later.
PITA's manager Fred Christopher says people in the Pacific are well aware and informed on the benefits and advantages of IPv6 especially network operators who need IP addresses.

He said IPv4 addresses are still operating globally and therefore network operators would need to operate both IPv4 and IPv6 if they upgrade to IPv6.

“Tunneling with IPv6 is already happening with a number of operators doing this to get an operating experience with IPv6. There are cost elements to change and with IPv6 now inherent in new equipment manufactured, the issue of cost with equipment may not be significant,” Mr Christopher said.

He said the world has become more closer with the Internet and the main important aspect for people nowadays is access. Mr Christopher said if people did not upgrade to IPv6, the rest of the world will, thus less and less access to the Internet and no access to a number of services provided on the Internet.

In 2003, PITA brought Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) to Fiji to raise awareness on IPv4 address depletion, since then there have been workshops and training held at technical level to equip members with necessary knowledge and skills to deploy IPv6.