| Will Kebab skewer IPv6? | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 - 07:42 AM | |||
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Behaving more like a glacier than a hot technology, IPv6 has been everyone's "sometime in the future" technology for years. While IPv6 introduces a slew of useful enhancements, such as integrated security, its raison d'etre is to expand the IP address space beyond the four octets that IPv4 offers. | ||
| Enter IPv6. Well, not exactly. You can buy some products that support IPv6 but the world – the Internet – is still IPv4. Unfortunately, manufacturers were ready to move to IP-enabled trash compactors and didn't want to wait. Enter Kebab. Matsushita Electric Industrial introduced this protocol – though it is more of a service – to allow external communication with devices inside the firewall. Eventually this will include the many consumer appliances that Matsushita sells under its Panasonic brand. Click here for the complete article. |
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