FPT Telecom officially deploys IPv6 on a large scale

From July 1st, FPT Telecom will offer IPv6 services to households having broadband Internet access and business sector.

After the successful trial offer with more than 200,000 users across the country in recent years, FPT officially offers IPv6 services on a large scale and is expected to reach more than half a million users in 2016.

To meet the rapid development of telecom networks require high flexibility, high transmission speed, wide bandwidth, multi-service to meet all communication needs of society. In this context, the biggest problem that the world is facing is the exhausted of IPv4 address space. IPv4 only capable of providing 4 billion devices connected to the Internet, this number is smaller than the world's population and a much smaller than  the number of devices capable of Internet connection today as well as future such as computers, phones, televisions, watches, cars, refrigerators ...

FPT Telecom CEO Nguyen Van Khoa said that the introduction of IPv6 as a new technology solution to maintain a long-term stability operation of Internet in the future, not only solved the problem of address exhaustion, but also overcome the limitations of IPv4 and provide other remarkable attributes. This new protocol is easier to manage with hierarchical routing structure, highly secure and better support mobile devices. IPv6 uses 128-bit addressing, so it can support up to 2128 different addresses, serving about 340 billion billion billion billion devices.

As a unit always be at the forefront of efforts to innovation, creativity and application of new technology, engineering, standards, FPT Telecom is aware of the importance of IPv6 and embarks on IPv6 extraction from human resources, system resources, infrastructure, ISP services, management/monitoring systems, internal applications and other services.

At the end of 2015, FPT Telecom has successfully connected with Google, Facebook, websites ... via IPv6 protocol with 60 Gbps of average traffic and 91,200 customers. Specifically, FPT Telecom has successfully deployed IPv6 with over 5 different types of FPT modem including GPON, EPON, ADSL and for the intranet as well as built IPv6 firewalls.

After the successful trial offer with more than 200,000 users across the country in recent years, FPT officially offers IPv6 services on a large scale and is expected to reach more than half a million users in 2016.

All information about IPv6 service of FPT Telecom is updated at the website: http://ipv6.fpt.vn/.