As an increasing number businesses move their internal IT services to cloud-based environments, the performance, quality and security of the network has become a strategic imperative. 

 

This week at the PTC’10 conference in Hawaii, NTT America’s director of product engineering, Cody Christman (News - Alert), will join IPv6 subject matter experts and leaders from around the globe to offer his perspective on the benefits of IPv6 during the roundtable “IPv6 --The Next Big Bail Out: Will IPv6 Save the Internet?” The panel will be held Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, from 9 to 10:30 a.m., local time, at the Mid-Pacific Conference Center located in the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa in Honolulu. 

 

The theme of this year’s conference, “Embracing the Cloud: Enabling Connectivity and Innovation,” will explore the evolution of cloud-based services and their implications for strategies and business models in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

 

 

During the IPv6 roundtable, panelists will discuss the ways cloud computing and converged communications applications are continuously being created on IP, and the finite number of IPv4 addresses presents a serious challenge. 

 

 IPv6 offers a variety of benefits for companies implementing cloud initiatives, including an almost infinite address space, scalability, better security, lower capital and operational expense and a number of enhancements for multicast and quality of service support.

 

“As more and more business applications are being created on IP, security and performance are major issues,” Christman told TMCnet. “Not to mention the fact that IPv4 addresses are dwindling.”

 

IPv6 will meet the Internet’s long-term requirements -- restoration of the Internet end-to-end model, infinite address space and many other benefits.  

 

“In addition, as IPv6 deployment is accelerating globally, countries with larger populations and smaller IP address pool allocations will soon access the Internet via IPv6 only,” he added. “IPv6 will be critical when it comes to maintaining Internet connectivity and business continuity with global partners.”

 

As a leading provider of global IP networking services including IPv6, NTT (News - Alert) America has unique insight into how global content delivery networks and content providers can cost-effectively and productively deploy next generation services, Christman told TMCnet.   

 

“NTT Communications (News - Alert) operates the world’s largest commercial IPv6 network and has been directly involved with the development and deployment of IPv6 technology for over a decade,” Christman said. “As a leader in both the implementation of IPv6 and advocacy for IPv6 adoption, NTT America (News - Alert) remains committed to sharing IPv6 experience, lessons learned and best practices with other leaders in the industry. During the discussion, I’ll discuss the benefits of IPv6 by demonstrating the protocol’s effectiveness through the use of real-world, commercially available applications that leverage IPv6 multicast such as Hikari-TV, the large-scale, commercially successful IPTV (News - Alert) over IPv6 service, and an ‘Earthquake Early Warning System.’ Such applications show first-hand how IPv6 technologies can be used in everyday life.”