IPv6 News

gogo6 Releases gogoCPE – World’s First v6 Adaptor MONTREAL (February 4, 2011) – gogo6 inc., the leading provider of IPv6 products, community and services, today announced the release of gogoCPE version 1.0 – a small v6 adaptor for the home [...]

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Continues Long-Standing Commitment to Helping Customers Deploy IPv6 SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2011 — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) has announced that it will participate in ‘World IPv6 Day’ on June 8, 2011, a one-day ‘test drive’ of websites offering IPv6 [...]

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From: RIPE NCC by Alex Pawlik Dear colleagues, On 1 February 2011, the IANA allocated two /8s of IPv4 address space to APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region. This means that only five /8s of IPv4 address space are left in the IANA free pool and the “Global Policy for the Allocation [...]

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With interest in IPv6 accelerating and adoption heating up more attention is being paid to address planning, but where do you start?
Organizations should already be working toward securing an adequately sized address block. You want to move quickly to avoid the possibility of demand exceeding the capacity of Regional Internet Registries and Service Provider’s ability [...]

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Many IT people, who are unfamiliar with IPv6, believe the responsibility for IPv6 deployment falls on the network-teams. However, those who are knowledgeable about IPv6 realize the migration to IPv6 will involve any system that uses an IP address. As the network teams prepare the infrastructure for the addition of IPv6 we should alert our [...]

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As of January 1, 2011, the number of unused IPv4 addresses stands at 495.66 million. Exactly a year earlier, the number of available addresses was 721.06 million. So we collectively used up 225.4 million addresses in 2010. 242 million, really, if we ignore the unusual circumstance that Interop gave back nearly 17 million addresses.
At [...]

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You’ve probably heard of IPv6 by now if you’re watching Internet technology at all, but even with new urgency to its deployment, there aren’t many people saying much about it. There’s a big problem with that.
Over a decade ago, Internet architects realized that the current Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) used for identifying systems on [...]

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On a whim, I decided to deploy IPv6. And all I can say is: It’s a lot easier than you think. I’m writing down a few notes here from the non-network-engineer’s point of view. This is supposed to be the first from a series of postings about my IPv6 deployment.
More from binblog…

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IPv6 is considered the future successor of the old internet protocol, IPv4. Although Ipv6 has began serving in the current time, IPv4 is still the main controller of the market. Yet, IPv4 is suffering from a serious exhaustion and problems which are giving focus to the upcoming IPv6.
Both IPv6 and IPv4 are Internet protocols for [...]

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Though IPv6 is in its infancy, making the transition out of IPv4 is essential but challenging.
When TMC last spoke with IPv6 expert Kowsik Guruswamy, co-founder and CTO of Mu Dynamics, a provider of technology for testing IP services, he said there are three pain points carriers will need to address for a clean transition: [...]

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