Training workshop on internet protocol held

Islamabad
A three-day training workshop on ‘Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) Deployment in Campus Network’ has started at
the National Centre for Physics (NCP) in collaborations with Trans-Eurasia Information Network (TEIN), South Korea.
While giving a welcome video address from South Korea, Taee Hee Lee, president of TEIN CC, welcomed the participants and speakers. He hoped that the event will be beneficial for improving knowledge and intellect of network engineers and administrators of academic institutes. He expressed his gratitude to the NCP for holding the event which will be fruitful in future collaborations between the two countries.
Dr. Hafeez Hoorani, director general of the NCP, talking about importance of IPv6 deployment, said that with the rapid growth of the
internet after commercialisation in the 1990s, it became evident that far more addresses than the IPv4 address space has available were necessary to connect new devices in the future. As a result IPV6 emerged and it is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP). IPv6 also provides other technical benefits in addition to a larger addressing space.
Latif Ladid, who is president of IPv6 forum, in his message said that this workshop is very valuable to acquire
the necessary kick-off knowledge to think of new innovative solutions allowing you either to create a start-up of your own or offer your
services to companies in Europe or in the US as IPv6 engineers are a very rare and they are in demand today in the market.
IPv6 is making some very good headway with some countries like Belgium reaching 38% of users using IPv6 to connect to Google, Facebook, Youtube, LinkedIn. The US has some 50 million users using IPv6 daily with a 15% user coverage.
Today in the top 10 countries, more than 10% are using IPv6 mainly due to their large ISPs offering IPv6 by default such as Verizon wireless and T-Mobile in the US.
The advent of IPV6 seem to capture everyone’s attention and the work done on it is helping the design of new products and apps to deploy very large scale Smart GRID project such as the one in the UK with some UK £2.1 billion or in Japan.
According to a recent study released by Cisco internet solution market is supposedly to become a $14 trillion
market by 2022. Pakistan could play a major role in designing internet solutions by using capabilities of its young IT engineers.
The workshop is being attended by a large number of IT experts from different universities and academic institutes across the country.