A few years ago, Zaltana was involved in a study coordinated by inno group for the European Commission. The study objectives were to analyze impacts of IPv6 deployment on vertical sectors (automotive industry, telecom, bank…). As being involved in that study was quite interesting, I though it could be useful to post here final reports of this work.

On November 2007, the release notes were:

End of 2006, The European Commission, DG Information Society and Media launched a study aimed at evaluating the Impact of IPv6 over vertical sectors.

Zaltana has been involved in that study coordinated by inno group. Final reports are now made available for download.

The study analyses the possible positive and negative outcome of various IPv6 adoption schemes and proposes several recommendations regarding the adoption of such systems in Europe.

These results are based on the analysis of:

  • SWOT analysis of 15 vertical sectors
  • Analysis of 12 case studies
  • A web survey which targeted both Internet users and Internet Service Providers
  • Workshops with IPv6 and sectors-representatives experts.

The final conclusion indicate that immediate consideration of Ipv6 integration has to be undertaken as this is the only way to minimise the costs associated with this activity and to facilitate the smooth transition of this integration tackling the key issue of the address shortfall.Two files are made available for download:

  • A 30 pages synthesis report (with executive summary in English, French and German)
  • The Full report including the followings annexes:
    • Case studies
    • SWOT analysis of 15 sectors
    • Web survey results
    • Final workshop report.

Final reports can still be downloaded:

These reports are also available on the European Commission website: