Creative Thinking for Unique Access Solutions
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Hello Next Generation Internet: IPv6 The current, practically universal Internet
Protocol used today is IP version 4 (IPv4). For a decade
now, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been
Addressing the Problem But are IP addresses really limited with the current Internet Protocol? The answer is yes - and no. Mechanisms to conserve IP addresses, such as NAT (Network Address Translation, which hides several computers at an organization behind a single IP address) and CIDR (Classless InterDomain Routing, which, roughly speaking, combines several addresses onto a single route), were so effective that addresses have not run out, and certain industry analysts predict that there will be enough IPv4 addresses available for several - even many - years to come. That may be the case in the U.S., which was allotted the bulk of available IP addresses. However, other regions, such as the Asia-Pacific rim, are already feeling the address crunch. For this reason, the governments of Japan and Korea have authorized migration to IPv6 by 2005. And due to the wide deployment of mobile phones, the European Commission is advocating that networks involved in research and government activities also support IPv6 by 2005. Applications
as the Driving Force Advantages of IPv6 include improved addressing and routing, increased security due to built-in encryption, end-to-end management, increased speeds due to simplified headers, support for prioritization and classes of service, easier administration due to auto-configuration and better support for mobile communications. However, no enterprise will swap out its current, operating network unless there is a real need. And only a handful of service providers - mainly located in Asia-Pacific, but also one in Seattle, WA - are deploying IPv6 in the backbone. Making the Switch RAD is closely monitoring
IPv6 developments for future implementation into its products, in
order to provide IPv6 connectivity and services to the customer
premises. RAD University, the popular on-line computer networking
and communications information source sponsored by RAD Data Communications,
has now posted a new series of tutorial projects to assist its many
visitors in gaining familiarity with IPv6 at New Sales Office in Russia
RAD in Fiji
RAD's Megaplex Delivers Specialized Voice Services to Brokerage and Trading Customers
RAD's Products Provide Voice and Internet Connectivity at the International Biathlon Union's World Championships 2003
Smooth Migration from 2/2.5G to 3G Download Our Foreign Language Catalogs RAD's 2003 product catalog is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. You can download it in any of these languages in PDF format. Industry Insights, Issue 5
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IPv6
will become widespread when hundreds of millions of unique IP addresses
are required. Future applications that are expected to drive this
need include everything from 3G mobile telephones and personal digital
assistants (PDAs) to Internet-enabled home appliances such as refrigerators
and microwave ovens, lights and air conditioning. IP addresses will
be required for cars equipped with location and maintenance services,
for fire alarms to indicate their location, and for streetlights
so that municipalities can control them remotely - to cite but a
few applications. 
As
a result of continued growth in the CIS in general and in Russia
in particular, RAD plans to open its 18th international office later
this year in Moscow. 
Gains
International, a specialist service provider of voice and data solutions
to financial institutions, selected RAD Data Communications' Megaplex-2100
modular multiplexer to deliver voice services to Gains customers,
who include major players among brokerage houses, trading companies,
investment banks and carriers. 
RAD's
cost-effective multiservice access platform (MAP) products were
easily deployed at the airport and new press center to accommodate
the communicatons needs of the hundreds of athletes and journalists
that descended upon the Siberian town of Khanty-Mansiysk. 
RAD's
new ACE-2002E ATM multiservice access concentrator concentrates
up to 20 E1/T1 CES or IMA/UNI ports over ATM. The product is designed
for mobile operators, for concentrating and co-locating 2G/2.5G
base stations and 3G Node Bs over a single ATM transport network.
The ACE-2002E enables carriers to generate additional revenue from
their existing ATM backbones by supporting LAN over ATM and E1/T1
over ATM services, enhanced by ATM's Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities,
including fault localization, delay measurement and performance
monitoring. 
This
month's