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There must be many users who are interested in IPv6 but unable to start using it because they cannot build IPv6 communication environment. Even some IT engineers seem to think that getting IPv6 connectivity is no easy task. These people should be interested in this presentation about Feel6 project.
The presentation by Mitsutaka Sato of FREEBIT titled "IPv6 Goes for Real Business" introduced "Feel6" technology developed by this company and reported on Feel6 Farm trial conducted for 6 months since March this year.
Sato started by saying that Internet will be used differently from now on. Up until now, there was a somewhat clear distinction between terminals which provides information (servers) and terminals which uses such information (clients). But it will be shifted to peer nodes communications as seen already in Voice over IP. In order to contain such qualitative change, ISP infrastructure needs to pay more attention to secure reachability from the Internet, cope with drastic increase in the number of connected terminals, assure security and support various types of connecting terminals.
IPv6 is undoubtedly the most suitable technology to meet these needs, but the problem is how to build IPv6 environment.
Feel6, developed by FREEBIT, is a collection of technology that delivers secure IPv6 network with no change in ISP infrastructure, enabling actual application services.
In Feel6, tunnels are established between IPv6 home gateways at user locations and FREEBIT network gateways connected to IPv6 Internet. That's why no modification is necessary for exiting IPv4 infrastructure.
Feel6 offers additional mechanisms to extend IPv6 plug and Play, to relaize highly transparent network environment. Security can be managed through filtering at the network gateways to prevent attacks from IPv6 Internet.
Sato went on to talk about Feel6 Farm trial.
This field trial offered BitBasket6, remote access to home, and remote control of consumer devices, as applications.
BitBasket6 is a collection of software tools for building and trying out IPv6 environment for users. Remote access to home enabled users to access home network from outside for checking mails received by home PC. consumer device remote control experiment offered remote control of IPv6-enabled Sony hard disk recorder at home.
Survey of trial participants revealed that 87 percent of them said IPv6 was easy to use and not difficult, and 81.5 percent said that IPv6 will increase convenient network services.
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