Businesses urged to adopt IPv6 sooner
22 Sep 2009
Businesses should be getting more familiar with IP Version 6 right now, to be prepared when the current protocol, IPv4, runs out of available addresses — something now likely to happen in 2012, the head of a regional Internet registry said today.
John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, the group responsible for the technical coordination and management of Internet number resources in the U.S. and Canada, said much of the enterprise hardware and software deployed today is IPv6-ready, but there are processes and procedures that must be implemented to make the conversion. Doing so now rather than later will enable businesses to avoid some of the performance problems experienced when linking IPv4 and IPv6 traffic through network address translation (NAT) boxes, Curran said.
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