Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Lab setup by Telecommunication
Engineering Centre (TEC), technical arm of Department of
Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications & IT on 25 June 2013
was approved by the IPv6 Ready Logo Committee under IPv6 Forum, an
International body. This achievement is significant for TEC and the
country as only five other labs in the world have achieved this
milestone. India has thus joined Europe and a select group of countries
which include USA, Japan, China and Taiwan having IPv6 Ready Logo test
lab facilities.
TEC has setup the IPv6 Ready Logo test lab as per standards
prescribed by IPv6 Ready Logo Committee and addresses Conformance as
well as Interoperability testing for various equipments with IPv6
implementation. The approval process additionally involved the
evaluation of the competence of TEC team to not only test the equipment
but also the ability to correctly examine the test results from other
international labs.
The internet and the internet facing devices are moving to new
addressing scheme IPv6 since IPv4 addresses are no longer available. The
Government has taken several policy initiatives so that the service
providers, content providers and the customer premises equipment vendors
are encouraged to move to IPv6 address implementation. Setting up
testing infrastructure is one of the objectives of NTP-2012.
Establishment and designation of TEC lab as IPv6 Ready Logo lab is one
such step which shall enable indigenous vendors/developers to avail the
facility of internationally recognized test lab in India. Availability
of approved TEST BED shall promote end-user confidence in using IPv6
Ready Logo approved products.
TEC will play an instrumental role in the Interoperability and
testing of IPv6 products as a major piece of the India IPv6 Strategy
roadmap announced by the India Government in building the New Internet
infrastructure as interoperability creates genuine end-user confidence
in new technologies.
The establishment of IPv6 Ready Logo Lab in India, expecting a huge
growth in the deployment of IPv6 in the world, is very welcome, and we
expect their contribution to the world-wide IPv6 deployment. We really
appreciate the great efforts of Indian team for their success, including
the future success.
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