Recently a Celcom careline representative consulted me on a matter with regards to whether Celcom Mobile Broadband support the next generation of internet protocol IPv6.
The answer (eventhough may not be publicly announced by Celcom (M) Bhd) is affirmative. For the time being Celcom Internet network are based on the current standard which is the IPv4. Last year Ericsson was contracted by Celcom to provide a new networking flatform based on the All-IP architecture by deploying Ericsson`s Mobile Softswitch system. Reader can refer to this article for the full story {http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=149524&site=ctia}
As a result of the implementation of an All-IP core networking system, automatically it will also support IPv6 protocol per say. In laymen term for simple understanding, compared to IPv4, IPv6 have the upper hand over IPv4. I will only highlight 2 (actually there are several but for me these 2 are the most important), namely:
a. Support larger allocation for DNS system (IPv4 use a 32bits address and IPv6 use 128bits of address) and ability to accomodate the ever increasing internet traffic
b.More secure connections
Example: a diagram of ALL-IP core networks by Motorola inc
IPv6 addresses range from 0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000:0000 to ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff(e.g: 2001:0db8:85a3:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334). For IPv4 the range is from 000.000.000.000 to 255.255.255.255 (e.g: 10.128.1.242)
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