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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 30, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 26
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KDDI LABS PILOTS IPV6 GRID BETWEEN
JAPAN AND THE U.S.
KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., KDDI Labs USA, Inc., and KDDI Corporation
announced the deployment of an IPv6 trial network between KDDI Laboratories
Japan and U.S. locations, in cooperation with the WIDE Project managed by
Prof. Jun Murai. The project is aimed at promoting IPv6 R&D activities both in
the U.S. and Japan, and will last until March 2004. The launch of the
following three initial R&D activities was also announced.
R&D activities over the IPv6 trial network:
1) IPv6 Applications -- developed by KDDI Labs such as "QualityMeeting" , a
realtime interactive video communication system, and "VAST-ip", a fast and
full-featured content transmission system, will be tested. Transmission
quality and its control schemes in cases of delay and transmission error due
to a long-haul overseas connection are to be researched and evaluated.
2) An IPv6 Portal System -- provided through KDDI's current Internet
service
(DION) IPv6 field trial, is to be used for conducting tests involving KDDI
Labs USA employees, in order to assess the convenience of the portal for
overseas business travelers and the contribution of IPv6 towards ubiquitous
computing.
3) IPv4-IPv6 Connectivity -- Automatic tunneling gateways called "6to4
Relay
Routers" are deployed at KDDI's data centers both in Japan and the U.S.,
providing an environment in which research and academic institutions can
easily interconnect from IPv4 to IPv6. Currently there are approximately ten
open 6to4 Relay Routers globally and one in Japan, including the systems
provided by KDDI Labs. KDDI Labs is the first institution to provide this
IPv4-IPv6 connectivity both in Japan and the U.S. Future plans include
research and assessment of the decentralization of the 6to4 Relay Routers and
the optimization of routing control between the two countries.
"KDDI's IPv6 pilot network deployment between Japan and the U.S. is the
first
of its kind. The deployment is quite meaningful for KDDI, a company that has
continuously supported Internet growth, in terms of v6 diffusion," said Dr.
Kazuo Hashimoto, President & CEO of KDDI Labs USA. "In addition to this
accomplishment, we are most pleased at being able to provide both Japanese and
American research institutions with such a productive test environment. We
hope that our technology will reach many users and contribute further to the
distribution and progression of v6."
In addition to the research activities above, KDDI R&D Labs, KDDI Labs USA,
and KDDI Corp. plan to facilitate research on IPv6 networks and practical
applications, based on this trial network, through partnerships with U.S.
universities and research institutions. The promotion of joint research on
grid computing via HDTV/IPv6 in conjunction with Osaka University and UC San
Diego is also planned.
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