China eyes next-generation internet

Beijing, Dec 24 China will allow commercial use of its straightway-generation internet system by 2015 afterwards putting it on trial in 2013, a media report said Saturday.

The new system expands the capability of the Internet Protocol address and improves the speed of the internet. It is as well expected to create employment, the Chinese cabinet said in a statement Friday.

The new research

The new research, called IPv6, is an upgrade of the current IPv4 whose IP addresses are about to be all used up, People's Daily reported.

The new IPv6 research opens up a pool of internet addresses that are a billion to trillion times larger than the total pool of IPv4 addresses and are virtually inexhaustible for the foreseeable future, experts said.

The new IPv6 network

Chinese companies are as well encouraged to develop new technologies on the new IPv6 network, just as cloud computing, Internet of Things -- uniquely identifiable objects and their virtual representations in an Internet-like structure -- and Three Network Convergence -- an initiative that hopes to integrate telecommunications, TV and radio, and the Internet in the world's most populous country.

Since 2004, the IPv6 networks have been built in some innovation organizations in Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou for testing.

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