October 14, 2008 -- (Web HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- India-based telecommunications giant Tata Communications (www.tatacommunications.com) has partnered with non-profit organization the Internet Systems Consortium (www.isc.org) to provide IP version 6 hosting services for enterprise businesses and service providers.
According to Tata Communication's announcement Monday, to prepare for next-generation technologies, it will now offer IPv6, which has a much larger address space than IPv4, the current standard facing the threat of address exhaustion. IPv6 provides more flexibility in allocating addresses and routing traffic and virtually eliminates the need for network address translation.
"The Internet faces an imminent exhaustion of IPv4 addresses and needs to urgently adopt and support the longer IPv6 addresses to ensure its continued growth," said Genius Wong, Senior Vice President of Global IP and VPN Services for Tata Communications. "This agreement will provide our customers with the strongest DNS able to resolve both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses with servers on five continents."
This partnership will also allow ISC's Solid Name Service network to grow in global presence and network capacity because of Tata Communication's global reach. In turn, Tata Communications will be able to draw on ISC's experience and support into supporting their own domain name system infrastructure. SNS is currently serving customer data in a beta test capacity with production service expected to begin within the year.
As an operator of one of the Internet's 13 root-name servers, ISC has more than 13 years of experience serving DNS data and providing BIND, the most used DNS server software worldwide.
