China's Next Generation Internet project, or CNGI is a 5 year plan initiated by the Chinese government with the purpose of gaining a significant position in cyberspace through the early adoption of IPv6. Currently the United States has almost a third of the theoretical maximum IPv4 addresses (about 1.2 billion), while China has more broadband internet users than it does IP addresses. With the implementation of IPv6 China hopes to avoid this situation and to get a head start in relation to the rest of the world. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer IP standard used by electronic devices to exchange data across a packet-switched internetwork. ... Internet Protocol version 4 is the fourth iteration of the Internet Protocol (IP) and it is the first version of the protocol to be widely deployed. ... Broadband in telecommunications is a term which refers to a signaling method which includes or handles a relatively wide range of frequencies which may be divided into channels or frequency bins. ... An IP address is a unique number, akin to a telephone number, used by machines (usually computers) to refer to each other when sending information through the Internet using the Internet Protocol. ...

China plans to showcase their new CNGI and their new IPv6 networking at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Everything from the security cameras, to the taxis to the cameras filming the Olympic events will be networked via IPv6, the events will be streamed live over the internet while the networked cars will be able to get a grasp on the traffic situation more readily. (Redirected from 2008 Olympics) The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, will be held in Beijing in the Peoples Republic of China from August 8, 2008 to August 24, 2008, with the opening ceremony to take place at 8 PM on August 8... Beijing [English Pronunciation] (Chinese: 北京 [Chinese Pronunciation]; Pinyin: Běijīng; IPA: ), a city in northern China, is the capital of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). ... Taxicab, short forms taxi or cab, is a type of public transport for a single passenger, or small group of passengers, typically for a non-shared ride. ... Streaming may mean: Streaming media, multimedia data transferred in a stream of packets that are interpreted and rendered, in real time, by a software application as the packets arrive. ...

References

• China Builds a Better Internet [1]

• China Reaps Big Fruits for Future Internet [2]