Business case, Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion

Four steps on the path to IPv6
12 Apr 2011

The hard reality that the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses recently hit the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You know what comes next: business executives get to wondering just how this IPv6 thing will impact their businesses.

You’d better, because the companies that provide your customers with Internet access are on the move. Broadband service providers–cable, DSL, and mobile–depend on a steady flow of new IP addresses as they grow, and they are actively implementing IPv6. Because of these initiatives, a tremendous number of IPv6-equipped end users will be coming online over the next few years.

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Prepare security networks for IPv6: Internode
11 Apr 2011

IT managers should be working on new security policies now, urges Internode’s Mark Newton.

With the death rattle of internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) getting louder, a key proponent of the protocol’s successor has warned IT managers not to take a “lock down” approach to migration.

The global internet registry, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, has warned that the last global allocation of IPv4 addresses ran out in February. Regional internet registries are likely to follow suit with Australia’s provider, APNIC, set to run out first.

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