Consortium Funds University 3G Research

date: August 15, 2001

The British northern university Lancaster University has received £750,000 from a consortium made up of Microsoft, Cisco and Orange to fund a new laboratory researching next-generation mobile devices.

The new Mobile IPv6 Systems Research Laboratory will be funded by the consortium for at least the next two years.

It will research on the use of IPv6 for interpersonal communications, message services, information distribution, enchanced positioning applications, business services and mass services on UMTS networks.

IPv6 is the next generation protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version IPv4. Most of today's internet uses IPv4 including WAP and iMode, which is now nearly twenty years old and it is beginning to have problems.

Most importantly, there is a growing shortage of IPv4 addresses, which are needed by all new machines added to the Internet especially with the future growth of the wireless sector meaning more IP will be needed.

IPv6 is expected to gradually replace IPv4, with the two coexisting for a number of years during a transition period.

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