Green Hills announces new US Government IPv6 (USGv6) support for its INTEGRITY real time operating system and Platform for Secure Networking. Green Hills Software is the first RTOS provider to announce this support. In July 2008, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created a new federal standard for the deployment of IPv6 in the United States Federal Government, NIST Special Publication 500-267. This standard, known commonly as USGv6, prescribes the base standards required for IPv6 networking in the Federal Government.
Moreover, in September 2010, the office of the Federal CIO, issued a directive that all government agencies must include the USGv6 requirements in their procurement of new networking technologies so that agencies would be able to expedite their deployment of IPv6. IPv6 not only solves the problem caused by limited current IPv4 addresses, but also allows government networks to scale for new initiatives such as Cloud Computing, Broadband, and Smart Grid.
IPv6 is the new core protocol for transporting data over the Internet. The IPv6 protocol replaces the current protocol, IPv4. IPv6 provides almost limitless addresses by moving from 32-bits of address space (approximately 4 * 10^9 addresses) to 128-bits of address space (approximately 3.4 * 10^38 addresses). In addition, IPv6 adds additional security and network configuration features.
