It is said that from the year 2011 to 2012, the expansion of content services on the Internet and rapid increase of Internet users due to the spread of broadband, existing IP Address Standard (Internet Protocol Version 4 : IPv4) (*1) will be massively consumed and IP Addresses will become insufficient.
To prepare for this situation, a new IP Addressing system (Internet Protocol Version 6 : IPv6)(*2) has been introduced and migrations considered and SpinNet will as well start an IPv6 Service as follows.
Details that are not fixed at the moment will be announced accordingly.
Description:
Service Information
We will start an IPv6 Service using "FLET'S HIKARI NEXT" offered by NTT East and NTT West.
Further details will be announced later.
Service Start Date
We are planning to start the service on and after April, 2011.
Further details will be announced later.
Fees
It is undecided at the moment.
Further details will be announced later.
Usage Method
To use the service, an application is required.
Further details will be announced later.
Services that the customers are using now will be as is.
*1 IP Address
A distinguishing number like a home address. Assigned uniquely to each computer or a communication machine that is connected to the Internet or and IP network intranet.
*2 IPv4, IPv6
The number of IPv4 address is the 32nd power of 2 = approximately 4.3 billion, but the number of IPv6 address is the 128th power of 2 = 340 trillion * million millions * million millions (= 340 undecillion). Infinite IP Addresses are prepared.
IPv4F32nd power of 2 = 4,294,967,296
IPv6F128th power of 2 = 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
