Technology Update

Yesterday, two IEEE ComSoc technical talks entitled “IPv6: Enhanced Mobility and Security Support?” and “Location Based Services” had been held in Auditorium UPM. The first section and second section were conducted by Dr. Daniel Wong from MUST and Dr. Mahamod Ismail from UKM respectively. I can say that both of the technical talks are related to mobile communication. DNSSEC and location tracking algorithms are those new things for me. We have able to invite Dr. Daniel Wong who had worked with Telecordia before on WLAN/UMTS convergence. However, the amount of participants frustrated me. Only around 50 persons came to the talk and not many questions have been asked. We need to do something to increase the number of “active” participants.

Back to IPv6, I knew that majority of the advanced countries in Far East, such as China, Korea and Japan, have worked out their IPv6 backbone. NTT Japan is in a leading role. I am not too sure about our own country. I have worked with Mimos before and knew that MANIS is promoting IPv6 in Malaysia. Anyway, I don’t hear about any initiative from TM Net. The future communication network, especially on rolling out the 3G or perhaps 4G services, which are full IP-based network, will play an important role on stirring up the IPv6 deployment. Our government reacts rather slowly in this. Same old story!