Nokia demonstrates industry's first mobile IPv6 call

At the 3G World Congress convention and exhibition taking place this week in
Hong Kong, Nokia displayed its CDMA technology leadership by demonstrating the
industry's first Mobile IPv6 call using Nokia's CDMA Dual-Stack handset. The
demonstration highlights real-time streaming video with seamless hand-off
between two CDMA access networks using Mobile IPv6. It is a mobility protocol
for IPv6 enabled handsets providing always-on capabilities and seamless
mobility.

This protocol provides seamless mobility for next generation mobile services
and applications by enabling terminals to maintain their IP connectivity as they
move across networks with different access technologies. Additionally, Mobile
IPv6 provides route optimization techniques to reduce hand-off latencies.

IPv4 has been an overwhelming success, however, the current IPv4 protocol has
encountered a growing list of challenges, including the scarcity of new Internet
IPv4 addresses. This is particularly an issue in emerging Internet markets where
the number of users continues to grow rapidly. Some operators have worked around
this address limitation by using Network Address Translation (NAT).

"IPv6 is the next-generation of the internet protocol and has many
advantages over IPv4 both for the network operators and the end-users,"
says Adam Gould, VP Technology Management and Planning, Nokia CDMA. "IPv6
allows the deployment of millions of always-on, IP enabled devices, each with
its own unique IP address. Additionally, Mobile IPv6 provides seamless mobility
across access technologies (CDMA, WCDMA , WLAN) and is a powerful enabler for
the next generation of services such as peer-to-peer services, push services and
Voice over IP (VoIP) which demand always-on global reachability and seamless
mobility."

Mobile IPv6 provides enhanced security and route-optimization techniques to
reduce hand-off latencies for real-time services.

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