The core router, new generation pivot equipment for Internet based on the "Sixth Generation Internet Protocol'', was developed by the Information Engineering Institute under the PLA Information Engineering University recently and passed technical appraisal. A panel of many Chinese scientists headed by Jin Yilian, member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Engineering unanimously believed the system has reached the advanced levels of the world. The high performance IPV6, first of its kind in the world, is the first core technique with the autonomous intellectual property rights of China, which produced far-reaching impact on the country's national Internet information security.

The router is known as pivot and controlling center for the Internet. The router was developed with an investment of more than 35 million yuan or 4.23 million US dollars and a staff of more than 200 scientists and technicians spending more than two years. It has a message switching capacity of 320 billion bits per second with a smooth transition to 128-bit Internet address space and the equivalent information transmission capacity of 4 billion Chinese characters. The router is in stable operation in a military and civilian demonstration network.

According to Professor Guo Yunfei chief of Experts' Team of Information and Communications the core chip used by the new-generation router is completely designed and produced by China. The successful development of the chip marks that China has entered into the ranks of a handful advanced countries with the capacity for producing such a kind of chips.

By People's Daily Online