Securing the Future of Satellite Internet Access: Successful Trial for Inmarsat’s BGAN Network on World IPv6 Day 2011
Inmarsat (LSE: ISAT), the leading provider of global mobile satellite communications services, has announced the successful trial of IPv6 services across its BGAN network. The trial, undertaken with technology partner Thrane & Thrane, coincided with World IPv6 Day on 8th June 2011.
Supported by the European Space Agency and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board, Inmarsat has now successfully completed an initial study on the feasibility of supporting IPv6 services across the BGAN network, which delivers mobile broadband services for use on land, at sea and in the air.
IPv6 is the next-generation version of the internet protocol (IP), the system by which information is transferred across networks. Organised by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day has been designed to motivate organisations across the ICT industry – internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for the introduction of IPv6. Major organisations such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo! were among participants who offered their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour ‘Test Flight’, which enabled Inmarsat and Thrane & Thrane to demonstrate BGAN’s compatibility with the new protocol.
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