Real World Applications of IPv6 from NTT Communications

Why do we need IPv6?

OK, let’s hypothesize here for a moment….close your eyes, well figuratively, not literally, or else you won’t be able to read my text and you’ll miss my point for sure!!

Thanks to a recent unrelated conversation with one of my Twitter friends this came up:
Close your eyes and imagine for a moment that General Motors R&D center magically invented the most amazing car ever… this car gets 500 miles to the gallon…even better still it runs on plain simple tap water, it seats eight comfortably, has a 2,000 watt Alpine sound system with JL subwoofer, and, best part yet is that they can sell them for $500 a piece at retail and still generate $5,000 in profit with every sale. Oh, and at a plant in Flint, Michigan, they can produce about 500,000 of these great cars every day.

That would be an amazing thing, right? And, surely that would be a product the whole rest of the world would want millions and millions of, right??

Well, guess what? In this dream there is one tiny little problem….there are NO freight ships anywhere in the world. Yes that’s right, no mode of transportation to get them to all four corners of the globe…DAMN, what a missed opportunity for GM! They have this great and wonderful product that they could sell literally millions of units of around the world, yet they have no way to get them shipped to any location besides North and Central Americas.

Of course they can now order up the construction of hundreds of super-sized freighters to haul these great cars across all the oceans around the world, but how long do you think that would take and how chaotic would that be?

Do you see my IPv6 business case point? Again, to echo and memorialize the words of the late great Jim Bound, “It’s JUST PLUMBING FOLKS!”

IPv6 is NOT going to change the world…it is the things that USE IPv6 to get from point A to point B that ARE going to change the world!