The Kenya Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) Council has been set up to oversee and speed up the rollout of the adoption of a new internet addressing.
The Kenya Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPV6) Council will be responsible for driving the country’s overall uptake of devices and internet connections to homes and enterprises in line with the National IPV6 Strategy developed by the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).
IPv6 is a new system that supports almost unlimited number of devices, has better security and other enhanced internet functionalities including reliability, faster speeds and the ability to stream data and content to multiple devices simultaneously.
In a speech read on his behalf, Ezra Chiloba, Director General of the Communications Authority of Kenya said that it reflected the Government’s digital transformation agenda, which seeks to engender a country where every citizen, enterprise, and organization leverages the immense potential of ICTs and thrives in the digital economy. He added that the CA is developing industry specific IPv6 training content to be used to train service providers on various regulatory measures required of them, like IPv6 data collection.
These new services pose higher requirements on IP networks for the number of connection addresses and high-quality bearers. Industries like finance, power and healthcare today have specific security, latency, and stability requirements that can only be met by the new IPV6 addresses.