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Sandvine (19): DPI is also a key part of the innovation in allowing a migration from IPv4 to IPv6 allowing a network operator to convert from one to the other using a carrier-grade network-address-translation (NAT) and keeping protocols such as VoIP operational. shepd: WTF???

‘DPI is necessary’ – Sandvine 2009

The alternative is carrier-grade network-address translation, which adds another layer of complexity to a Web site.

Run on IPv4 addresses could exhaust supply by December 2010

Comcast is taking a multi-pronged approach to IPv6, running customer trials of dual-stack IPv6 and carrier-grade NATs at the same time.

IPv6 vs Carrier-grade NAT 2010

So it's possible that ISPs will choose carrier-grade NATs over IPv6 this time around.

IPv6 vs Carrier-grade NAT 2010

Alcatel built the switches, routers, pipes & network management software for carrier-grade networks.

This working life Bas Bleu 2010

But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will embrace alternatives such as carrier-grade network address translation to share the few remaining IPv4 addresses among their new users.

IPv6 vs Carrier-grade NAT 2010

Alcatel built the switches, routers, pipes & network management software for carrier-grade networks.

Archive 2010-01-24 Bas Bleu 2010

Sandvine (19): DPI is also a key part of the innovation in allowing a migration from IPv4 to IPv6 allowing a network operator to convert from one to the other using a carrier-grade network-address-translation (NAT) and keeping protocols such as VoIP operational.

‘DPI is necessary’ – Sandvine 2009

Yesterday, it announced a “paid trial of Verso ` s NetSpective M-Class Solution to filter Skype and other peer to peer (P2P) communications with a Tier-One carrier based in China” marking the “introduction of the NetSpective M-Class with Skype filtering technology, a first of its kind carrier-grade application filter for mobile operators offering a bandwidth optimization and content management tool specifically for the mobile carrier market”.

Verso – China Skype blocker 2005

The internet as it currently exists does not provide carrier-grade reliability, and by extension neither does VoIP.

VoIP needs to be better, much better 2005