The network of the future

Magyar Telekom in the spirit of innovation

Our company considers it a major objective and an important element of our job to actively keep track of innovation trends, technologies and solutions that provide new opportunities as well as to offer such solutions to our customers so that we can embark on a journey to the future together. 

With this mission in mind, we are the first in Hungary to offer solutions based on IPv6 technology (the network addressing method of the near future) both to residential and business customers. Features based on IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) technology became available for testing as of the autumn of 2009, offering an even better customer experience attached to functions that customers are already used to.

New and improved services

With the IPv6 technology we can provide never before seen functions, speed and security for upgraded services, such as:

• Internet access – safer browsing, more reliable networks
• VPN service – safer data transmission
• Peering service – larger data packages, more stable connection
• Content service – novel solutions
• Hosting service (web, server) – more reliable data transmission, safer environment
• DNS service and domain registration – „quasi-fixed” address space

More partners, more technologies

We make the features of IPv6 network addressing available for small and medium enterprises, large businesses and residential customers, in the introductory phase on traditional fixed (ADSL) and optical technology using Windows Vista/7 or Unix/Linux operating systems. In the near future, we intend to extend our newest technology to our cable television and mobile network.

Preparations

The quality provision of this new technology and its introduction was preceded by a long process of preparation. After working out the concept, first laboratory tests, then – during spring 2009 – live operational tests were accomplished, based on which, in the fall of 2009, we started to upgrade our live systems to fully support the new technology.

Pilot phase from 2009

For the flawless introduction of IPv6 technology and for testing our technical readiness under live operational circumstances, we need the help of our customers to provide us with feedback that will later help us to develop the commercial service.

What does IPv6 offer?

Thanks to the new network addressing solution IPv4 addressing limitations experienced earlier can be almost completely eliminated:

• An address space/range will become available that contains enough public IP addresses for every customer and network endpoint.
• We can provide a public IP address range for our customers’ home or business networks (LAN), thereby making it possible to provide public IP addresses to hundreds of sub-networks and connected devices.
• The traditional dynamic addressing method will be replaced by „quasi fixed” addressing, meaning that the allocated address (prefix) would be changed only very rarely (e.g. network reconstruction).

Additionally, practical user level applications are extended with new features, such as:

• Built in support for IPsec encryption
• Increased minimum size for data packages, resulting faster data transmission (peer-to-peer, VideoLAN, Windows Media Player)
• More efficient web search (Google over IPv6)