The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has mandated that IPv6 be implemented across the Federal Government by 2008. Additionally, the Department of Defense (DoD) is requiring its own upgrade to IPv6 by 2008.
The Jabber Extensible Communications Platform (Jabber XCP) is IPv6 compliant and is widely deployed throughout the Federal Government, including the DoD, Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Intelligence Community, and the leading defense systems government contractors.
The main improvement brought by IPv6 is the increase in the number of addresses available for networked devices, allowing, for example, each mobile electronic device to have its own address. IPv4 supports about 4.3 billion addresses, which would be inadequate for giving even one address to each of the 6.5 billion people alive today, much less for supporting the growing market for connective devices. IPv6, however, supports approximately 50 octillion addresses. It also adds improvements to IPv4 in areas such as routing and network auto configuration. IPv6 is expected to gradually replace IPv4 worldwide, with the two coexisting for a few years during a transition period.
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