OTTAWA – Canada’s Advanced Research and Innovation Network (CANARIE) will offer Internet Protocol version v6 connectivity to ensure that Canadians benefit from the advanced networks’ capabilities.
The IPv6 protocol will use an addressing capacity of several orders of magnitude greater than the current IPv4, since it uses 128 bits to assign IP addresses, rather than 32 bits. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has predicted that IPv4 addresses, used to connect computers and other devices to the Internet, will run out by 2012.
“CANARIE is proud to show leadership in Canada and help facilitate this nation’s transition to IPv6,” said president and CEO Jim Roche, in a statement. “We look forward to working with researchers and industry members to help foster this expertise in Canada.”
CANARIE said that it will be establishing IPv6 peering with a number of ISPs, providing full IPv6 connectivity to its members and connected institutions. For more information on connecting to CANARIE using IPv6 connectivity, click here.
Established in 1993, CANARIE manages an ultra high-speed network, hundreds of times faster than the Internet, which facilitates leading-edge research and big science across Canada and around the world.