IPv6 Act Now

A new software offering launched today aims to address backward compatibility problems that have kept IPv6 from being more widely adopted. The offering, ZebOS Rapid Deployment from IP Infusion, is based on IPv6rd specifications that allow IPv6 traffic to transit traditional IP networks that use IPv4 by encapsulating IPv6 packets into IPv4 packets. (The “rd” suffix stands for “rapid deployment.”)

Some industry experts have been predicting the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses. Yet an August 2009 study from Arbor Networks showed that only about 1% of Internet traffic used IPv6. Backward incompatibility problems are believed to be the main reason more network operators have not made the move to IPv6.

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With the impending countdown to the exhaustion of available IPv4 addresses, the Federal Government, Internet Service Providers and Enterprises are beginning to deploy IPv6 throughout their networks.

While IPv4 will not go away immediately, IPv6 capability is being adopted by more companies. IPv6 traffic is increasing at unprecedented rates. Wireless communication providers such as Verizon are requiring device manufacturers to support IPv6. Google has enabled IPv6 on their main search engine (ipv6.google.com) and YouTube.

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The first two laboratories have recently completed accreditation to provide testing services for the USGv6 Program. The USGv6 Program, developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, provides the basis for expressing U.S. government requirements for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) technologies and for testing that commercial products meet those requirements. The availability of commercial testing services is an important step towards the U.S. government’s use of USGv6 acquisition tools, beginning in July 2010.

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The POPClock tells us that there are 6,807,230,170 of us on this planet when I looked it up at 22:26 UTC (EST+5) Feb 26, 2010. In the meantime we are about to connect the five billionth cell phone user this year according to ITU Secretary-General Dr. Hamadoun Toure. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona he also mentioned that the current recession hardly put a dent in the subscriber growth. Gartner Research shows 1.2 billion cell phones sold in 2009, down 0.9 from the previous year but a strong growth in smart phones which saw sales of 172.4 million units growing by 23.8 per cent for the year, 58 per cent in the fourth quarter only! On the network side a February 26th press release from the GSA association announced that 59 operators in 28 countries are now committed to LTE compared to 39 operators in 19 countries six months ago. A further 16 operators are running technology trials. By the end of 2010, 22 LTE networks will have entered commercial service. The first two commercial LTE networks were launched last December in Sweden and Norway. And let us not forget Mobile Wimax which is also gaining some momentum.

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I’m going to level with you. This story is not sexy. I could have written a little thing about how popular Lady Gaga videos are online — no joke — but instead I am choosing to write this post. I am going to warn you: There are acronyms. But you should read this story because in the world of technology, it’s important. I’m serious. No, really.

The issue at hand is what the headline makes note of: We’re running out of IP addresses.

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Many of us would still remember the trepidation that resulted from anticipated problems related with the Y2K (Year 2000) bug and the major adjustments and preparations that were made globally to avoid it.

As with Y2K, the Internet is now facing a situation that requires global adjustment.

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We’re seeing articles in the media—yes, even in this magazine—about the inevitable rise of IPv6 in a networking environment that’s seeing its current method of IP addressing (IPv4) surge toward depletion. And yet, although IPv6 is cropping up in some outlying experiments and in some products, it’s just not surfacing in a meaningful way. Will this new decade see a true migration to the addressing scheme that many people today see no reason for and just don’t want to mess with? In a word—yes.

According to Windows IT Pro contributing editor John Howie, “IPv6 is indeed inevitable. There are simply too many devices that want to communicate with each other for IPv4 to keep working. The explosion in mobile devices is certainly driving this. Currently, we use a number of technologies, such as NAT and Teredo, to make it all work in IPv4but we can’t escape the fact that the pool of available IPv4 addresses is dwindling very fast. (We’ll likely run out in two or three years.)

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Imagine that you are the IT administrator charged with IPv6 roll-out at your organisation. IPv6 is the new iteration of Internet Protocol designed to replace IPv4, the protocol on which the Internet is based. You’ve known about IPv6 for years, it’s something that’s been spoken about often you’ve even made plans for how it is going to be adopted but something’s always got in the way; and during the latest economic downturn, only projects that can show an guaranteed return have been approved. And now time is running out fast. IPv6 panic is starting to creep in. You may even wonder if you are over-reacting; and you may worry that you are not.

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Data Centers Canada, a data center provider which operates, develops and manages Canadian real estate for the purpose of providing turn-key data center solutions including colocation and disaster recovery solutions for enterprises, today announced the availability of the IPv6 to its Toronto, Ontario Canada data centers.

IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol provides many benefits in comparison to the legacy IPv4 standard. The key benefit of IPv6 is that it addresses the current need for additional IP space as the current IPv4 architecture is close to world wide depletion.

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IPv6 is the successor to IPv4. IPv4 аnd IPv6 are the Internet protocols thаt аll networks use to communicate. IPv4 iѕ still dominate today on the internet. Thе rеason for IPv6 iѕ simple, thе world iѕ running out of IPv4 addrеssеs. So IPv6 was crеatеd in 1998 to creаte morе аvаilаble public IP addreѕѕeѕ. IPv4 gives you about 4 billion addreѕѕeѕ. To put this in perspective, thе size of а ѕubnet alonе in IPv6 is 2 to thе 64th power. Or the square of the entire IPv4 internet. To further put thiѕ in perspetive, with IPv6 you can have 340 trillion trillion trillion uniquе addresses.

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