IPv6 Act Now

There are a few culprits that regularly contribute to delayed or failed IPv6 deployment projects, such as poor DNS planning, insufficient testing, unanticipated application behavior, and poor IPv6 support in peripheral support, management, or security systems. Many deployment projects suffer temporary halts when the original IPv6 address design is found to be inadequate – in a few cases, the address design has had to be reworked more than once.

Even worse that an IPv6 address design that halts a project is a design that is just good enough to allow the project to proceed, but bad enough that it will saddle the network with expensive operational difficulties for years to come.

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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 to service these requests quickly. If it turns into a land grab as some predict, you want to be ahead of the pack.

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Two leading network vendors — Cisco and Verizon Business — have enlisted in an upcoming trial-by-fire of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol called IPv4.

Two leading network vendors — Cisco and Verizon Business — have enlisted in an upcoming trial-by-fire of IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol called IPv4.

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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 application developers and make sure they are ready for the challenge that awaits. This article contains some of the key issues that application developers will need to know as they make their applications function properly in a multi-protocol world.

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Are you ready for IPv6? If you hope to have enough web addresses to meet the needs of your clients, your answer should be a resounding, “Yes!” The reality in this web-hungry world, all carriers should be properly testing IP services to ensure they can support both IPv4 and IPv6 services at the same time.

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I wouldn’t recommend that you warn your friends that the internet is filling up, any more than I’d advise Henny Penny to tell the King that the sky is falling in. But there must be some truth in it – the internet bit, I mean – because the Chief Internet Evangelist of Google says so.

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Unconvinced the only reason for the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 centers on the ability to connect more devices to the Internet and online content, I took the question to the engineering community. I’ve been thinking about this for more than a year, asking advertising and marketing folks their opinions on the topic. Few know about the next generation protocol. So here are a few reasons the ad industry needs to know.

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Google, Facebook and other leading tech companies will jointly promote the adoption of IPv6 by enabling the internet protocol on their web sites for 24 hours.

The stunt, dubbed World IPv6 Day, aims to encourage widespread adoption of the IPv6 address format.

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With more than 150 million page impressions per month, heise Online is one of the biggest news sites in Germany. Globally, it is also one of the largest sites now running in dual-stack mode, which means that pages can be accessed via both the conventional IPv4 and via the newer IPv6. The migration brought to light various interesting phenomena.

IPv6 has been considered the internet of the future for the past 15 years. However, people seem hesitant when it comes to fully embracing that future. All parties involved blame each other for the extremely slow start for IPv6.

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It’s January again, and being the start of another year, it’s as good a time as any to look at the last 12 months and see what the Internet was up to in 2010. This is an update to the report prepared 12 months ago when looking at 2009, so lets see what has changed in the past 12 months in addressing the Internet, and look at how address allocation information can inform us of the changing nature of the network itself.

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