China Next Generation Internet

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China's Next Generation Internet project, or CNGI, is a five-year plan initiated by the Chinese government with the purpose of gaining a significant position in cyberspace through the early adoption of IPv6. The United States has almost one third of the theoretical maximum IPv4 addresses (about 1.2 billion)^{[citation needed]}, while China has more high-speed Internet users than it does IP addresses. With the implementation of IPv6, China hopes to avoid this situation and to get a head start in relation to the rest of the world.

China plans to showcase their new CNGI and their new IPv6 networking at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Everything from the security cameras to the taxis to the cameras filming the Olympic events will be networked via IPv6; the events will be streamed live over the Internet while the networked cars will be able to grasp the traffic situation more readily.

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• China Builds a Better Internet [1]

• China Reaps Big Fruits for Future Internet [2]