When you contemplate the telecom companies around the world, and see their vision and preparation for moving to IPv6, you will notice a clear conflict and variation in opinions. Some of them claim they are 100% ready and it is a matter of switching from IPv4 to IPv6, while others are taking this very seriously and they are assessing their infrastructure and testing with their neighbors. In either directions, we belief it is not an easy job to do so, and it needs a wise planning, and an extensive testing for functionality, performance, advanced features etc. It is a very lengthy transition period whether they like it or not.
Apart from all this, it is obvious that the business sector is trying to get a big bucks out of this events, and they are warning the operators in order to convince them to buy their products. It is like a harvest season for an idea that has arise two decades before.
It is worth mentioning here one of the amazing projects called 6NET which took place between sixteen European countries in order to gain experience on how to deploy IPv6, and how to migrate IPv4 networks, systems, application into fully IPv6. The interesting thing is that the American companies are not as much interested as the European and Eastern companies in moving toward IPv6 technologies. This might be because they acquired enough IPv4 pools in early days, and they needs another one or two decades to consume it !
Anyway, I think it is very essential for us to understand IPv6 technologies, and get used to it, before even think to plan for migration. This will create a very good opportunity for technical people to practice, and witness a new era of the routing protocol. Hopefully one day we can export this experience to others, not the other way around as usual !
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