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Services | Backbone operation | Technologies | R&D | Networks | Qualification | Events |
 | IPv6 at RNPThroughout the year 2001, RNP configured a pilot network in order to use the IPv6 protocol in its native mode. The network was assembled in the same equipment used to provide IP connectivity in RNP2 backbone, allowing two things to happen at the same time - the backbone's IPv4 production traffic and the IPv6 test traffic, without one of them interfering with the other. The first tests involved RNP's Points of Presence (PoPs) in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Norte and Rio Grande do Sul. The current topology of RNP's native IPv6 network can be seen in the map (mapa) available in the “Service” area of the site. To get IPv6 connection services, the institution must be located in one of the states served by this network and must be RNP's client. RNP is also responsible for the distribution of IPv6 production addresses in Brazil. A range of IPv6 addresses was reserved with the aim of forming partnerships with companies willing to explore this new technology commercially. One of the commercial applications of IPv6 is in the field of telephony, more precisely in the so-called third-generation cell phones. Connections with foreign networks RNP established native connections between its IPv6 pilot network, the Ampath - Americas Path Network (USA) - and RCTS - Rede Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (Portugal). It also has IPv6 tunnels (virtual links over an IPv4 structure) with the academic networks Internet2 (USA) and Renater - Le Réseau National deTélécommunicationspour la Technologie, l'Enseignement et la Recherche (France). Br6Bone Br6Bone is a virtual IPv6 backbone, implanted over a pre-existing IPv4 infrastructure. RNP's Engineering and Operation Center (CEO) developed this research project with the purpose of spreading knowledge and qualifying the technicians at RNP and at its Points of Presence, besides other research institutes. |