IPv6 Act Now

NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today that it will offer a high-standard service-level agreement (SLA) guaranteeing 100% network availability, as well as latency and packet loss levels, to customers using IPv6 services provided on NTT Com’s global Tier IP backbone network beginning July 1.

If the services do not achieve the quality levels guaranteed under the SLA, NTT Com will refund all, or a pro-rated amount, of the customer’s service fee.

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Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, the not-for-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet, explains the impact that country-wide broadband will have on this infrastructure in the UK.

The recently published Digital Britain report outlined the Government’s plan to equip every household in the UK with high-speed broadband by 2012. This will have a huge impact on our Internet infrastructure, because the more widespread the broadband penetration becomes, the more computers will be connected to the UK-wide network. In order for the Government’s ‘broadband for all by 2012’ vision to become a reality, we need a dramatic increase in the number of available IP addresses, the numeric IDs assigned to all devices connected to the Internet.

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Internet addresses are running out. What’s New Zealand doing about it?

It’s no news that the pool of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is running out. Thanks to the internet growing rapidly with increased broadband uptake, legacy over-allocations of blocks and with no effort to conserve remaining routable IPv4 address space, estimates say by 2011, or as early as the end of next year, none will be left.

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“Look out! The world is about to run out of network addresses.”

Business network users have been hearing this warning for some time. Is this a real concern, or is it simply a case of “the boy who cried wolf?”

The current Internet addressing scheme, commonly known as Internet Protocol version 4 or IPv4, was invented in the late 1970s. It provided 4,294,967,296 or approximately 4.3 billion Internet addresses. In 1975 the earth’s entire population was about 4 billion. To IPv4’s designers that meant just about one Internet address per person. Certainly that should have been plenty—especially, since, at the time, only a handful of developed countries had Internet access. It was totally unimaginable that the IPv4 address space could ever be exhausted.

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Over the next few months, we plan to articulate the real-world applications of IPv6 right now.  This is not going to be one of those discussions that highlight beautiful IPv6 features stuck in the theoretical and things that don’t actually exist in nature (mandated IPSec, QoS, etc).  We are going to show you what is actually happening in the industry currently and what applications are leveraging IPv6.  Obviously, this is going to help everyone’s business case to drive adoption further along.  Without further ado, the juiciest use of IPv6 today: Microsoft’s Direct Access Enjoy!

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This week marked 20 years since Robert Elz and Torben Neilsen completed the first circuit that brought the Internet to Australia.

More than 12 million Australians users have been connected to the Internet since the first 56kbps satellite circuit was created, according to the International Telecommunications Union.

Internet access was available in 1989 initially to universities via the Australian Academic Research Network (AARNet) and was later offered by commercial Internet Service Providers during the early 1990s.

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Next week, Randy Frank will take over as the new CTO of Internet2, an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based consortium of 200 U.S. universities conducting advanced networking research. Frank joins Internet2 from Fidelity Investments, where he served as chief technologist for the financial services firm’s Center for Applied Technology. Before that corporate post, Frank ran high-performance computing centers and research networks for the University of Michigan and the University of Utah.

Now, Frank is looking forward to getting back into academia, where he can get involved with cutting-edge Internet research in such areas as dynamic provisioning of high-bandwidth circuits, distributed authentication schemes and IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

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Due to the speed of progression in the networking industry, technologies often come and go without a hint of a whimper.

However, our trusted friend TCP/IP has stuck around for over 35 years and with IPv6 seems set to remain for years to come. With this in mind, GG2 explores the book The Illustrated Network: How TCP/IP Works in a Modern Network, a ‘bottom-up’ approach to teaching the protocol suite.

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Comcast continues to outpace rival U.S. cable companies in the development of next-generation Internet connectivity and content.

Last week, the ISP was among the first carriers to demonstrate end-to-end IPv6 transmission for residential broadband customers. IPv6 is a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol that provides more IP addresses, built-in security and easier configuration than the existing IPv4 protocol.

Comcast’s demonstration, which was held at the North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) meeting, featured IPv6-enabled Web content from three leading providers: The Planet, a Web hosting company; Netflix, a movie distribution Web site; and Limelight Networks, a video streaming service.

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While other governments are leading the charge to upgrade IP networks, New Zealand is stuck in the slow lane.

Frank March, a specialist advisor in the digital development group at Ministry of Economic Development and a member of the IPv6 Steering Group, says when it comes to the adoption of a new Internet Protocol, government is a tough nut to crack.

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