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South Korea to spend $1 Billion on switch to IPv6

by Geof Lambert for Digarians
Friday, June 8, 2007. 08:12AM
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05/31/07 15:05 S. Korea to spend US$1 bln on switch to new Internet protocol

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Seoul (ANTARA News/Asia Pulse) - South Korea said today it will spend 1 trillion won (US$1.07 billion) as part of an effort to help the country adopt a next-generation internet protocol by 2013.

The new network layer system, called Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), provides a virtually infinite number of addresses, compared with the current IPv4 which is plagued by an internet address crunch, officials said.

"All state and public internet protocols will be converted to the IPv6 mode by 2010," Park Jong-koo, a senior official at the Ministry of Science and Technology, said at a meeting of science and technology ministers.

Source: Business in Asia Today - May 31, 2007 published by Asia Pulse

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Saturday, June 9, 2007. 12:39AM by Geof Lambert
Well you have security protocols, training and procedures to deal with too. Go check out my lasting posting, might shed some light. here is good article: http://www.networkworld.com/news/200...
Friday, June 8, 2007. 09:37AM by Jesse Tayler
what exactly is involved in making all state protocols converted to IPv6? Is there something more than software?
Friday, June 8, 2007. 09:34AM by Dann Diez
Great news.. Truly they are leading the way in the ICT... Hope they share it to the developed countries...