With reference to
IPv6, probably most end users might not have any sense of it. The mainstream
parlance in the industry is that network carriers and content and service
providers stick to their own arguments. Carriers believe owing to the lack of
IPv6 content and service, the demand for IPv6 from the users is very small. The
content and service providers hold that users cannot have access to content and
service through IPv6 and that why they should provide the service in this
background.
Dr. Song Linjian
of CFIEC stated in the article China,
towards fully-connected IPv6 networks that Chicken and Egg paradox between
IPv6 networks and content is just temporary and that it surely exists but not
the key reason. China has already prepared itself. When the last mile problem
is solved, the users will fully explode. Long ago, every telecom carrier
started to strictly implement the network device procurement requirements that
network devices must support IPv6 such as the IPv6 Ready Logo testing and
certificating which can satisfy this requirement. However, the CE (home
gateways and wireless routers, etc.) purchased by users themselves mostly do
not support IPv6, which caused the last mile problem.
“When IPv6 is still burgeoning, it is hard to
require the vendors and users to have the devices with IPv6-enabled and
IPv6-certified. The enterprises produce mature CE Routers (Customer
Edge Router, home gateway routers)that support IPv6 do not launch their products to the Chinese market
in that customers do not have demand for IPv6. This has become the narrowest
bottleneck that hinders the development of IPv6 fixed line users.” said the
Director of the BII-SDNCTC Li Zhen with reference to the fixed line IPv6
development.
In the upcoming
era of IoT, more and more devices need to be connected, and the home gateway CE
routers, as the switch center of home network information and data, needs full
support for IPv6. From another perspective, it can also be seen that the home
gateways have won enough attention to IPv6. On March 19th 2014,
international IPv6 organization IPv6 Forum and IPv6 Ready Logo committee
officially announced the initiation of the IPv6 Ready CE Router Logo
conformance and interoperability testing and certificating program, which marks
the full support from brand-new CE Router certificating program of next
generation Ipv6 deployment and commercialization. According to the statistics
from IPv6 Forum, at present, there are 3000 network devices that passed the
Ipv6 Ready certification. The rate of supporting IPv6 is very high. But when it
comes to the home gateway CE devices, the next CE scaling testing program CE
Router under the framework of IPv6 Ready Logo, only 17 devices from US Netgear,
ZTE, Broadcom, etc. have passed IPv6 Ready Logo certification. As the key to
access to the last mile of IPv6 in the households, the Chinese market for
routing devices bears great potential. The CE Router certified devices will
have stronger competitive edge to take hold of vantage ground in the next
generation network deployment and commercialization.
According to the Global
IPv6 Testing Center, the devices to be certified by CE Router Logo are the
smart home gateways, such as the home routers, wireless routers, GPON&EPON
end devices, etc. The testing content covers the core protocols (Phase-2
enhanced certificating), all the tests in DHCPv6 and RFC084. Compared to other
certifications (Core, DHCPv6, Ipsecv6, SNMPv6), the certification is highly
targeted at devices and much stricter. In the future, more CE routers will be
certified by IPv6 and the seamless deployment of home IPv6 will be gradually
realized to solve the last mile problem of the access to IPv6 by carriers. This
will have far-reaching influence on the transition of the users to IPv6.
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