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Fortinet a leading network security provider and worldwide leader of unified threat management (UTM) solutions — today announced it has achieved ground-breaking IPv6 performance on its FortiGate-5140 multi-threat chassis-based system, which delivers 56 Gbps IPv6 throughput, setting a new industry benchmark for network security processing.
Complete info at EarthTimes, RTT News and CNN.

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A ‘decade from hell’, according to Times Magazine, a ‘dazing decade’ says Newsweek. In Copenhagen, at the Climate Change Conference, the World Meteorological Organization talked of the ‘hottest decade on record’.
Complete info at CircleID.

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Cyber-criminals have no shortage of incentive to innovate, so perhaps it is not really surprising to see new technologies get wrapped up in malicious activity.
Complete info at eWeek.

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A ‘decade from hell‘, according to Times Magazine, a ‘dazing decade‘ says Newsweek. In Copenhagen, at the Climate Change Conference, the World Meteorological Organization talked of the ‘hottest decade on record‘. BusinessWeek characterized the decade as one of ‘innovation interrupted‘. All this gloom made me wonder how to qualify our IPv6 decade? Most of Jordi Palet’s ten year old IPv6 status around the world [PDF] could have been written last month including quotes by our internet luminaries. A lost decade?

The early years were punctuated by the Tony Hain—Geoff Huston joust whether address exhaustion would be as soon as 2008 or as late as 2020 while others where dreaming of killer applications and associated riches. The burst of the internet and telecom bubbles dampened the early enthusiasm for a while as the internet wasn’t doubling every three months after all. It took some years to soak up the excess bandwidth. Research and Education networks like internet2 in the States and Canarie in Canada moved along pushing the IPv6 envelope becoming dual stack as early as 2002, but this did not propagate toward the edges. The problem was and still remains to a large degree that campuses and labs did not have immediate need or justification to follow. Some forward looking tier-1 internet traffic carriers started to include IPv6 in their calls for tender as part of the regular upgrade cycle but here also IPv6 adoption did not propagate downward. The second half of the decade saw the internet continuing to grow more than 50% yearly and they got rewarded as their network cores became dual stack ready riding the coattails of the upgrade cycle. Fifty plus percent annual growth does not make a lost decade.

What was overlooked, like so often, is that progress depends on the confluence of advances on several technology fronts and on reaching critical masses of users. Parallel progress in broadband access deployment, in processing power and in storage combined with growing affordability catalyzed dematerialization of the distribution of news, libraries, music and video. Even shopping and even some face to face meetings were affected. Licking the wounds after the telecom bubble, the wisdom of “build and they will come” was, for a time, dubious. However, the logjams of bandwidth, processing power and storage bottlenecks broke with some synchronicity and the time had come for bandwidth gobblers like Youtube, Hulu and the Social Networking Commons to blossom. Google and Yahoo made these masses of information searchable by humans and cashed in on the advertising dollars flowing to the internet.

Telecom highlights of the last decade? The bubble, the world cutting the umbilical cord going mobile, prevalence of high speed internet access, the ascent of Google, the Apple iPhone.

The next decade? What about six hundred million FTTx subscribers, six billion humans with mobile communicating smart devices, sixty billion communicating ‘things’. IPv6 is prevalent by 2016 and we finally write about something else. Abundance of IP addresses pushes virtualization further; virtual servers live in virtual clouds which follow the sun and winds and circle the earth on an eternal quest for the most energy and cost efficient physical datacenters.

The 5,000th exoplanet will be catalogued (415 are known today) and indisputable evidence for extraterrestrial life will be found.

No decade has ever been lost, evolution just does not progress in a linear fashion. Imagine if we had written a summary of the first decade of the century in late December 1909. The first ten years were extraordinary while the following ten would really become a ”decade of hell” for tens of millions who happily celebrated New Year 1910. In retrospect our contemporary last decade was not that bad after all.

Written by Yves Poppe, Director, Business Development IP Strategy

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We are pleased to announce that The Planet is and continues to be our official hosting provider. The hardware on which this web site operates is a dedicated hosting server provided by The Planet for use by Stan Barber, a TXv6TF Director. He, in turn, has the TXv6TF web site running on it. IPv6 and [...]

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Who would buy non-existent DNS names? Well, it should
come as no surprise that in a world where there is already a
large and valuable market for selling DNS names that are not
Internet-visible as service endpoints, there is also a
valuable market in identifying yet more names that users are
using in their applications that are not even visible to the
DNS. There is value in catching the NXDOMAIN responses from
a DNS resolver and substituting a page impression. There is
value in the so-called practice of “typosquatting”.

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I have seen a number of commentaries and presentations in
recent times that claim that IPv6 is identical to IPv4 in
every respect except one: namely more addresses. But there is
one more rather critical difference, and that is the
deliberate change in the IPv6 with respect to MTU handling
and packet fragmentation, and this relatively minor change in
IPv6 has some really quite critical implications. In this
article I’d like to illustrate some of the implications of
this change with respect to the IPv6 treatment of packet
fragmentation by taking an in-depth look at the IPv6 packet
flows and why and how this change to packet fragmentation
management can cause service-level disruption.

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ServersMan(R)@Android 2.0β, a new cloud storage application for Android phones. The app is now available for downloading free of charge on Android Market.
Complete info at NewsBlaze, EarthTimes and StreetInsider.

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After two long years since the last release, Cygwin 1.7 (a Linux-like environment that runs on Windows systems) has been released. Among many other improvement, this release adds support for Windows 7 and Server 2008R2.
Complete info at OSnews, The H and Lifehacker.

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It’s been years since IP slowly but surely began infiltrating into mainstream carrier networks. In 2010 it’s poised to make its biggest impact ever.
Complete info at TelephonyOnline.

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