By Sandra Ah Sam
Vodafone on IPV6
This was confirmed by Vodafone Information Technology Manager Ateen Kumar who said the transition would bring about changes to how the company operated, however plans to transit were yet to be decided on.
He said once IPv6 was implemented by Vodafone Fiji, they would need to build the knowledge of managing IPv6 addresses and IPv6 IP routing.
He said people in the Pacific were not concerned thus very little action to transit to IPv6 will be taken as a result.
Mr Kumar added that in the Pacific, he saw Internet Service Providers implementing IPv6 after three or more years while some businesses are still not aware of it's importance and benefits.
“Because there is sufficient IPv4 at the this point in time, the issue will arise when more addresses are required. This will leave Internet Service Providers no choice but to implement IPv6,” Mr Kumar said.
He said as for the telecommunications field, implementing IPv6 would bring about major changes which should be managed well since customers would need to support IPv6 on their devices such as broadband modems etc.
People will benefit once IPv6 is implemented as there is an abundant supply of IP addresses to allocate to all customers, devices and servers on the World Wide Web.
