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Securing the Future of Satellite Internet Access: Successful Trial for ...

Supported by the European Space Agency and the UK’s Technology Strategy Board, Inmarsat has now successfully completed an initial study on the feasibility of supporting IPv6 services across the BGAN network, which delivers mobile broadband services for use on land, at sea and in the air.

IPv6 is the next-generation version of the internet protocol (IP), the system by which information is transferred across networks. Organised by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Day has been designed to motivate organisations across the ICT industry – internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for the introduction of IPv6. Major organisations such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo! were among participants who offered their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour ‘Test Flight’, which enabled Inmarsat and Thrane & Thrane to demonstrate BGAN’s compatibility with the new protocol.

The IPv6 over BGAN trial, undertaken by Thrane & Thrane using an EXPLORER 500 land mobile terminal, involved successfully establishing an IPv6 connection from Windows- and Apple-based computers via Inmarsat’s BGAN network to the public IPv6 Internet. The connection was used for web browsing (HTTP) on ipv6.google.com, searching for the ‘Internet Engineering Task Force’ (IETF) and then visiting the IETF IPv6 site. IETF is the organization responsible for creating the IPv6 protocol suite.

“We see an increasing interest in IPv6 from government organisations, and our participation in World IPv6 Day will reassure our customers of our ability to support native IPv6 services in the future,” said Henrik Noerrelykke, Vice President of the Land Mobile Business Unit at Thrane & Thrane. “These tests illustrate that the EXPLORER series is already prepared to support our key customers’ future requirements.”

“The trials demonstrate several key concepts associated with transporting IPv6 over BGAN, including IPv6 PDP Context Activation, stateless address configuration, IPv6 DNS resolution, IPv6 routing, and tunnelling IPv6 over intermediary IPv4 networks,” said Paul Febvre, Head of BGAN Product Evolution at Inmarsat. “The tests also verify that the BGAN network will be able to support IPv6 services to future IPv6 Capable Products.

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I bit the bullet this week and invested into a BGAN unit. BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) gives someone the capacity to get on the internet anywhere in the world. I have wanted one since being in Haiti. Typically the first 1-3 days of a major disaster there are real problems with cell phone access to the internet. It has been something I couldn't really justify until now, these things are expensive (especially the data plans) but living in Hawaii and realizing that we are pretty much in a Tsunami alley, plus the fact that it might be a few days before real help could arrive (depending on how bad the airports get jacked up), this made sense to me.

If something happens, or if I go into an area that doesn't have cell phone access, I should still be able to get online.

The BGAN 500 is about the size of a large book and weighs about 5 pounds. Looking forward to testing it out as soon as my data plan is set up.

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