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CI Builds Business Case for Migration to IPv6 in Part II of Whitepaper
TMCnet Associate Editor
IPv6 solutions provider Command Information recently released Part II of a whitepaper explaining the benefits and logistical challenges of business migration to IPv6.
The 11 page whitepaper, “An Analysis of the Business & Financial IPv6 Marketplace,” written by CI’s CEO Tom Patterson, looks at the financial and regulatory issues surrounding the upcoming transition, while at the same time building a solid business case for IPv6. It includes sections focusing on cost savings benefits for businesses and also touches on the potential for the development of new technologies afforded through the next IP addressing system.
Much of the new whitepaper refers to a recent independent study from the U.S. Department of Commerce, done in conjunction with the research group RTI International, focusing on global IPv6 developments thus far. The DOC report examines the issues surrounding business transition to IPv6 and also looks at the potential financial costs. It also looks at some U.S. companies which have already migrated to the new protocol and how they are leveraging it.
The DOC report shows that the transition to IPv6 has the potential to become a viable, profitable market. Among key findings in the DOC report are that the transition to IPv6 will cost American businesses approximately $1 billion per year over the next 25 years, and that for each dollar invested in IPv6, only about 8 cents is for actual infrastructure upgrades, while the remaining 92 cents will be invested in taking advantage of it. The DOC report also shows that the IPv6 market could generate up to $10 billion in costs savings for businesses annually, and that every dollar invested will yield a return of about $10. Driving the cost savings, according to the DOC report, are improved security, increased efficiency, enhancement of existing applications, and the creation of “Net-new” applications.
Part I of the whitepaper, “America’s Qwest (News - Alert) for IPv6” (both parts written by Patterson), demonstrated the business case for the U.S. to embrace IPv6 - and also reviewed the mergence of IPv6 in countries including China, Japan, Korea, Sweden and France.
Copies of the whitepaper (including Parts I & II) can be downloaded for free at www.CommandInformation.com.
CI made news in March when it announced that it had launched two new business units - Mobile Convergence, and Business and Information - and that it had hired two industry veterans - Flavio Sonis and Forrest Snowden - to head them up as it prepares to roll out new service offerings.
Founded in January, Command Information claims to be “the largest pure-play IPv6 solutions provider in America.” The company offers “strategy, tactical direction and application development services for Fortune 1000 companies and government organizations seeking to move to the fast-emerging new version of Internet protocol.”
IPv6 is the updated version of the original Internet protocol, IPv4, which was designed in the 1970s and deployed in the 1980s. Internet protocol is the “address system” which enables data to be sent from one device to another through the Internet.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed IPv6 in 2000, when the Internet began to grow well beyond what anyone could have imagined. In many respects, IPv6 is what will solve the problem of less and less available bandwidth for network operators. Among the many advantages of migrating to IPv6 are that it will vastly improve the delivery of voice and video signals over the Internet (i.e. it will enable true peer-to-peer communications); it will vastly improve security; it will pave the way for IMS to become a reality; and it will spur further innovation and development of next generation services.
Herndon,Va.-based CI is one of the first companies to set up a full-service firm to capitalize on the systems integration opportunities created from the gradual changeover to IPv6. The company focuses on the six key areas required to leverage IPv6: training, transformation and strategy; application development; application and infrastructure security; mobile convergence and telematics; business and information strategy; and network architecture and implementation.
CI’s application development practice is led by Digital Focus, which specializes in agile software development and integration services.
For more information, visit www.CommandInformation.com.
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Patrick Barnard is Associate Editor for TMCnet and a columnist covering the telecom industry. To see more of his articles, please visit Patrick Barnard’s columnist page.
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