IPv6 Act Now

Maker of Application Delivery Controllers, A10 Networks, has expanded its AX Series to deliver IPv6 migration boxes for carriers and Internet Service Providers.

A10 says demand for Internet Protocol addresses is rapidly increasing, pushing the existing available IPv4 address pool to exhaustion.

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The National Insitute Of Standards And Technology (NIST) announces the public comment release of Special Publication (SP) 800-119, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of IPv6. IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the next generation Internet Protocol, accommodating vastly increased address space. This document describes and analyzes IPv6’s new and expanded protocols, services, and capabilities, including addressing, DNS, routing, mobility, quality of service, multihoming, and IPsec.

Read the document and comment here.

Sheng Jiang (Huawei) and Brian Carpenter (University of Auckland, research consultant to Huawei) are currently running a questionnaire on IPv6 deployment, addressed to every ISP. The purpose is to provide facts for a document about deployment scenarios that we are drafting for discussion in the IETF.

All responses will be kept strictly confidential and the study’s authors will publish only combined results, with no information about individual ISPs in any published results. You can also request that neither you, nor your ISP, be mentioned in the acknowledgments.

Please find the questionnaire at
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/ISP-v6-QQ.html

Answers are requested ASAP.

Napatech today announced the introduction of full IPv6 support in all Napatech PCI-Express network adapters. IPv6 usage is expected to grow with IPv4 addresses running out and the number of Internet users set to increase by 45% over the next 5 years. Napatech has therefore ensured that the advanced packet capture, analysis and transmission capabilities offered for IPv4 today are also supported for IPv6.

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Australian ISPs have been branded “a timid lot” for their tardiness in providing support for the new Internet address protocol IPv6, soon to be essential as the IPv4 address space becomes exhausted.

Writing in the latest edition of his organisation’s newsletter, ‘The Standard’, Michael Biber, professional services manager at IPv6 consultancy IPv6Now, notes that only seven percent of Australia’s Autonomous Systems are IPv6 ready, and he contrasts this with New Zealand at 18 percent and with Jersey, Cuba and Vatican City all of which, he says have between 50 percent and 100 percent IPv6 capability, although he does acknowledge that this may be due to them having few autonomous systems (essentially a group of Internet routers under common administrative or technical control).

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Think back ten years. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was at 11,500; Comcast was purchasing Lenfest and Prime Cable; and IT departments around the world were feverishly preparing for the transition to the year 2000 (Y2K).

Remember Y2K? That was the “millennium bug” that resulted from the practice of shortening a four-digit year to two digits. It created a lot of panic—and revenue for companies that offered solutions to a problem that was likely overstated.

Today’s Y2K is the transition from IPv4 to IPv6, although insiders bristle at that comparison. The big difference is that this transition has no hard stop.

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Predicting what will happen in the next decade of communications technology is complicated, primarily because the subject matter has become so integral to other technologies.

The idea of pervasive IP — or ubiquitous computing, the internet of things or hyperconnectivity — will transform the way we live and work. Just as the smartphone has given us portable, powerful connectivity, pervasive IP will mean internet connectivity embedded into everyday objects — some portable, some fixed.

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The RIPE NCC has published an analysis of trends in IPv6 “tunneling” (IPv6 traffic transiting across IPv4 connections) in the Internet over the past five years. The results give some promising indications for the deployment of IPv6 in the global Internet.

For details, see RIPE Labs…

Internode is offering IPv6 services in native mode on its national ADSL network.

In a statement the broadband provider said it had been operating a native IPv6 backbone from mid-2008 but it was only available to those with a direct Ethernet connection or with the ability to tunnel IPv6 through an IPv4 connection.

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Could Smart Grid, the Obama Administration’s effort to modernize the nation’s electric grid, be the killer app for IPv6?

That’s what Internet engineers are asking as they see billions of dollars in stimulus funds pumped into smart electric meters, automated utility substations and new sensors networks – all of which could take advantage of the abundant address space and built-in security offered by IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

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