Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (Ltd) has successfully deployed Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to provide large address space to its valued broadband customers. Internet Protocol Version 6, deals with the IPv4 address exhaustion as IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, and supports 2128 (340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456) addresses.
It can be installed as a normal software upgrade in Internet devices and is interoperable having backward compatibility with IP4 applications and devices. IPv6 deployment strategy is designed not to have any flag days or other dependencies and run well on high performance networks (eg Gigabit Ethernet, OC-12, ATM, etc).
It is having a probability of affecting only a few portals, that too for a few hours without having any kind of outrage overall, and at the same time still be efficient for low bandwidth networks (eg wireless). In addition, it provides a platform for new Internet functionality that will be required in the near future.-PR