IPv6 News

What’s wrong with IPv6, what’s right, and why none of us really has a choice, according to supporters.
Complete article at Internetnews.

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LISP mechanism aims to address scalability issues in the Internet’s routing system caused by companies ‘multihoming’ or splitting their network traffic over multiple carriers.
Complete info at InfoWorld.

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The Internet’s leading standards body appears split on a controversial proposal to specify network address translators (NAT) for IPv6, the next-generation Internet Protocol that was designed to eliminate such middle boxes from the Internet infrastructure.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

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Although it’s been hard for companies to financially justify the expense of embracing the next-generation standard for wiring together the Internet, the incentives are now arriving–and Google itself stands to benefit from the resulting democratization of networking.
Complete article at CNet.

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US Congress has set aside $7.2 billion from the economic stimulus package specifically to expand broadband access throughout the country.
Complete info at IT Pro.

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Juniper Networks, Inc., the leader in high-performance networking, today announced firewall solutions that have been tested and certified as interoperable with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), and are now listed on the Unified Capabilities Approved Products List as IPv6 Capable.
Complete info at EarthTimes, Sys-Con and Ad-Hoc-News.

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lueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence Company™, today announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program.
Complete info at EarthTimes, Sys-Con and StreetInsider.

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GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, on March 25 announced the NETernity CP981RC CompactPCI Gigabit Ethernet Switch.
Complete info at finchannel.

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Cisco has shipped a batch of patches to cover multiple vulnerabilities affecting IOS, the software that powers the vast majority of Cisco’s routers and switches.
Complete info at ZDNet.

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Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company’s applications to support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.
Complete info at NetworkWorld, CIO and ITWorld.

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