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China builds an ultrafast Internet
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Updated: 2006-09-26 08:37
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China has built its own version of an ultrafast next-generation Internet
network that promises to reduce the country's dependence on foreign
companies, the state news media reported Monday.
The China Education and Research Network has linked 167 institutes and
departments at 25 universities in 20 cities through the Internet Protocol
Version 6, China Central Television reported.
The current Internet is run by Internet Protocol Version 4, which is
limited by the numbers of Internet addresses that can be created and
lacks advanced security functions, the report said.
The new protocol can work at speeds of 2.5 gigabytes to 10 gigabytes of
information per second, around 100 times current Internet speeds, the
report said.
Researchers in the United States, Japan and South Korea are also building
IPV6 technologies, which are expected to gain "significant global
traction" by 2010, it said.
According to IPV6 information posted on Microsoft's Web site, IPV6 and
IPV4 will be used simultaneously over the coming years as Internet
operators and home computers gradually take on the new technology.
IPV6 is expected to be able to handle an infinite number of Internet
addresses, offer better security and be more compatible with mobile
phones and hand-held computing devices, the Microsoft site said.
Chinese researchers received government approval to research the new
protocol in 2003 with the goal of helping domestic companies build
competitive hardware for the next-generation Internet, The China Daily
said. Internet routers and other equipment for the IPV4 system are now
mostly made by American companies like Cisco Systems and Juniper
Networks, the paper said.
Five Chinese telecommunications operators, including China Telecom and
China Mobile, are building IPV6 networks, with some expected to begin
trial runs by the end of the year. Chinese research institutes and
manufacturers are also working to standardize and commercialize IPV6
applications and hardware with the hope of making Chinese technology
companies more competitive globally, the paper said.
Lenovo reports overheating
Lenovo Group, the Chinese personal computer maker, said it was
investigating a case in which a Sony-battery- powered Lenovo notebook
computer overheated this month and began smoking and sparking, Reuters
reported from Tokyo.
The malfunction, whose cause is unclear, happened with a Lenovo ThinkPad
T43 on Sept. 16 at Los Angeles International Airport, but no one was
injured, a Lenovo spokesman in Tokyo said.
Dell and Apple Computer last month together recalled almost six million
Sony batteries, saying that they could produce smoke and catch fire. The
Lenovo notebook that became overheated was using the same type of Sony
battery that was a target of Dell and Apple Computer recalls, the Lenovo
spokesman said.
A spokesman for Sony said the company was cooperating with Lenovo in
investigating the overheating but added that Sony had not determined that
the notebook computer had been equipped with a Sony battery.
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