IPv6 News

Cisco Systems is looking to help partners continue their sales push into the wiring closet by launching a new product in its Catalyst 4500 Series to offer entry into modular switching.
Complete info at CRN and The Register.

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Microsoft is adapting its updating infrastructure for the next iterations of the Windows client and server operating system. In this sense, the evolution does by no means stop with Windows Update, but also involves components specific to enterprise IT environments.
Complete info at SoftPedia.

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NetLogic Microsystems, a company involved in the design and development of knowledge-based processors and high-speed integrated circuits, exhibited two reference platforms demonstrating support for Layers 2-4 packet processing and Layer 7 content inspection using Cavium Networks’ OCTEON Multi-core MIPS64 Processor Family at the Interop Conference 2009, in Las Vegas.
Complete info at TradingMarkets and Media-Newswire.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has launched a comic book series to further help raise awareness for the adoption of IPv6 and other matters dealt by the organization.
Complete info at CircleID.

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On behalf of the Federal CIO Council, US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced today the release of the “Planning Guide/Roadmap toward IPv6 Adoption within the US Government”.
Complete info at CircleID.

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For some years now I’ve been running a set of scripts that
attempt to model the consumption of IPv4 addresses and
then use this model to look forward in time and predict
the date at which the pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses
will be exhausted. The results of this model, together
with a description of the process used in the model can be
found at http://ipv4.potaroo.net. As the predicted date of
exhaustion is getting to be a “right here and right now
problem” rather than a “comfortably in the vague future,
so its really someone else’s problem” its probably worth
revisiting the model and the assumptions it makes so that
you can choose for yourself whether to believe its
predictions – or continue to press on with IPv4 and
blithely ignore the entire problem for yet another day.

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The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has launched a comic book series to further help raise awareness for the adoption of IPv6 and other matters dealt by the organization. The comic books, called “Team ARIN”, are fictionalized views of the organization, its processes, and the whole concept of Internet governance. “Though our heroes are fictional, the issues they face are very real,” says ARIN.

From ARIN: “Team ARIN is a group of superheroes that represent four of the principles by which the Internet is operated and governed: Accessibility, Responsibility, Information, and Neutrality. … Team ARIN is not a typical group of superheroes—they do not battle a literal enemy directly. Instead they use their powers to educate the public and facilitate community participation in the existing open, transparent, bottom-up policy process.”

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On behalf of the Federal CIO Council, US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced today the release of the “Planning Guide/Roadmap toward IPv6 Adoption within the US Government”. This document defines the Federal Government’s Internet Protocol version (IPv6) direction, building upon requirements set forth in OMB Memorandum 05-22. It was developed by the CIO Council’s IPv6 Working Group, in partnership with the American Council on Technology / Industry Advisory Committee, in consultation with and review by the Federal CIO community.

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We’ve been warned that the Internet is running out of IPv4 address space and the end is near. Yet for some reason, IPv6, isn’t something that is being broadly adopted — in North America at least. We need a hero, or maybe a few superheroes to save the day right?
Complete info at InternetNews.

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Largest IPv6 peering point globally forecasts further increase in traffic and results.
Complete info at NewswireToday.

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