China News Service, April 26, according to the website of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the General Office of the State Administration of Radio and Television recently issued a notice on the promotion of IPv6 transformation of Internet TV services. The notice made it clear that at the end of the third quarter of 2020, the IPv6 transformation of the equipment related to the backbone network, metropolitan area network, access network and Internet backbone direct connection point through which the Internet TV business has gone through was completed.

  The notice clarified three key tasks and goals: First, the IPv6 upgrade and reconstruction of the network infrastructure was fully completed. China Telecom, China Mobile, and China Unicom will carry out IPv6 transformation on the equipment related to the backbone network, metropolitan area network, access network and Internet backbone direct connection point through which the Internet TV service passes. By the end of the third quarter of 2020, the above-mentioned network infrastructure IPv6 transformation was fully completed. IPv6 network performance was converged with IPv4, and the main indicators such as average packet loss rate and delay did not deteriorate by more than 10% compared with IPv4.

  The second is to accelerate the improvement of IPv6 carrying capacity of application infrastructure. Central Radio and Television Headquarters, Shanghai Radio and Television Station, Hunan Radio and Television Station, Guangdong Radio and Television Station, Zhejiang TV Station and Hangzhou Radio and Television Station with Internet TV Integration Licenses are required to carry out IPv4 / IPv6 dual-stack transformation of the Internet TV integration platform and support IPv6-based protocols Scheduling and on-demand services. By the end of the third quarter of 2020, all software and hardware platforms of the Internet TV integrated platform must be completed, covering 80% of the total number of Internet TV users. On-demand traffic based on the IPv6 protocol accounts for 10% of all on-demand traffic. China Mobile, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, Baidu Cloud, JD Cloud, Huawei Cloud, and ChinaNetCloud will implement IPv6 transformation of the content distribution network (CDN) related to the Internet TV business. By the end of 2020, the service capability of Internet TV services based on IPv6 protocol will reach more than 85% of IPv4; the acceleration performance of Internet TV services based on IPv6 protocol will reach more than 85% of IPv4.

  The third is to focus on improving the IPv6 support capabilities of receiving devices. Xiaomi, Huawei, Skyworth, Hisense, TCL, Changhong, Konka, Kyushu and other manufacturers have accelerated the realization of new production of Internet TV receiving devices (including terminal ROM, player, application service framework, terminal management module, etc.) support IPv6, factory default configuration support IPv4 / IPv6 dual stack; speed up the support of IPv6 for the existing stock Internet TV receiving equipment through firmware and system upgrade. Tmall, JD.com, Taobao, Pinduoduo and other e-commerce platform companies should give priority to users to recommend IPv6 set-top boxes, smart TVs and other terminal equipment. Newly deployed Internet TV receiving equipment (including but not limited to set-top boxes, smart TVs, and other product forms) of related units should support IPv6, and accelerate the support of IPv6 through system software upgrades and other methods for qualified stock Internet TV receiving equipment. At the end of the quarter, all relevant units completed the upgrade of all qualified stock Internet TV receiving equipment.

  The notice requires that all relevant units should strictly implement their responsibilities, further refine the task decomposition, layer by layer the responsibility, arrange special funds to ensure the implementation of the task. It is necessary to establish a list of tasks for IPv6 transformation of the Internet TV business and make clear the time schedule. To strengthen the coordination of docking. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the State Administration of Radio and Television will focus on the difficulties and problems in the IPv6 transformation process, further improve the docking coordination mechanism, and promptly solve them. Relevant units should strengthen cooperation, timely report the difficulties and problems in the process of IPv6 transformation, and ensure the completion of the annual task.