IPv6 Act Now

Startup CloudFlare is turning the economics of IPv6 transition on its head with a free cloud-based IPv6-to-IPv4 translation service that is available to website operators starting today.

Dubbed Automatic IPv6, the new service is made possible through the use of proxies at CloudFlare’s 14 data centers worldwide. The proxies translate incoming IPv6 traffic into IPv4 before being sent to a website. The service also provides IPv4-to-IPv6 translation services for new websites – particularly those in Asia – that are being built using IPv6 only.

IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. Carriers, hosting companies and enterprises are migrating to IPv6 because the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses. IPv6 is not backward compatible with IPv4, so website operators must deploy translation services or run both protocols if they want to be reachable by all Internet users in the future.

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Fidelis Security Systems has announced the release of new cyber decoders to provide better visibility of enterprise activity.

The Fidelis XPS IP Tunnel cyber decoder provides full inspection of sessions running over 6to4, 6over4, Teredo and GRE tunnels; the IPsec decoder identifies various types of IPv6 and IPsec tunnelling activity across IPv4 networks.

Fidelis said they can be used to detect the presence of tunnelled traffic and apply content inspection and malware analysis of the tunnelled sessions.

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Owen DeLong is an IPv6 Evangelist and Director of Professional Services at Hurricane Electric, a large provider of IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation services.

Most data center operators know that a failure to transition to IPv6 will eventually restrict access to connected resources and degrade communications efficiency. But one lesson of World IPv6 Day (held June 8, 2011) is that IPv6 adoption can bring immediate benefits in the form of improved network topologies and security today.

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The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is designing and building its next-generation IPv6-ready network infrastructure with the help of IP networking solution provider H3C.

HKU has been continually upgrading the campus network in recent years and its latest initiative will cover several areas such as its main campus, student residential halls and remote sites such as Cyberport.

The network will also cover the Faculty of Medicine at Sassoon Road and Queen Mary Hospital in Pokfulam, as well as the remote offices in the Kennedy Town Centre and the new Centennial Campus.

This Asian university is currently using two high-performance H3C S9500E core switches to provide the 10GE backbone that links all existing campuses.

HKU has upgraded over 350 building and floor switches to H3C S5120-EI and S5500-EI to boost performance and security.

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What if those new jeans you’ve just bought start tweeting about your location as you cross London Bridge?

It sounds far-fetched, but it’s possible – if one of your garments is equipped with a tiny radio-frequency identification device (RFID), your location could be revealed without you knowing about it.

RFIDs are chips that use radio waves to send data to a reader – which in turn can be connected to the web.

This technology is just one of the current ways of allowing physical objects to go online – a concept dubbed the “internet of things”, which industry insiders have shortened to IoT.

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From the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, questions have been asked as to whether London 2012 will be able to live up to the spectacle of the 2008 games in China. One area people may not have considered however is whether Great Britain can match China with regards to its IT infrastructure.

Everything about the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games was IPv6 ready. From the website, to data networking, camera transmissions for sporting events and civil applications such as security systems, lighting and thermostats. Even the 15,000 taxis in Beijing were monitored via IPv6 sensors so that traffic congestion was measured quickly and effectively relieved.

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Now that World IPv6 Day is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including Google, Facebook and Yahoo! enabled IPv6 on their main URLs for 24 hours.

For the next few years (or decades?) there will be a transition period when both IPv4 and IPv6 will be used on the Internet. While the share of IPv6 traffic is currently tiny, it is growing rapidly, and soon, some users will only have IPv6 addresses. For companies that deliver content over the Internet (many local broadcasters), now is the time to begin implementing IPv6 on their website servers.

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Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) has established a laboratory for training and research in Internet protocol version 6 (IPv6), located at the Department of Telecommunications in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics. The purpose of the lab is to provide an open environment for validating solutions, network setups, and applications built on IPv6 and to provide onsite and online training in IPv6-related information and communications technology solutions to academics, government administrators, and telecom specialists.

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UK cable operator Virgin Media has successfully trialed broadband speeds of 1.5 Gbps in East London using DOCSIS 3.0 technology from Cisco.

Virgin Media achieved the new speeds using Cisco’s (3G60) Broadband Processing Engine, a high-density, cost-effective line card for its flagship uBR10K Universal Broadband Router and Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS).

An important component of Cisco’s complete DOCSIS 3.0 solution, the 3G60 line card enables cable television operators to offer IP video services, and together with the Cisco Universal Broadband Router supports the full set of DOCSIS 3.0 features at scale, including IPv6, and supports advanced features such as dynamic bandwidth sharing.

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The telecommunications industry has been around for quite some time. Whether you take it as a starting date the first efforts with the wired telegraph in the 1830’s, or the telephone in the 1870’s, this industry has been around for quite a long time. During this periods it has made huge achievements, and there is no doubt that the impacts of this industry have changed our lives in many ways. Indeed, this industry has a rich history of achievement. It is literally amazing that this industry has managed to preserve dial tone on telephone handsets while completely changing the underlying network and switching fabric of the telephone system numerous times.

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