Tag Archive | "address management"
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
Today’s internet uses a protocol which is now nearly twenty years old. The protocol is used to transmit data, voice and voice packets over the internet. Age is not the biggest problem for the current internet but shortage of IP addresses which are needed by all new machines added to the Internet. IPv4 [...]
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The RIPE NCC, the not-for-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet, launches the IPv6 Act Now website today. With an Internet community position statement on IPv6 supported by over 800 organisations, the website explains the new Internet protocol in terms that everyone can understand. It also urges adoption of IPv6 by all organisations [...]
IPv4 Exhaustion, Policy
ince my initiation into the world of IPv6 in 2004, it seemed that a religious war of address management was brewing. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) and Stateless Address Autoconfiguration (RFC 4862) became an issue of security, address management and scalable nodal allocations. Really, what is the big issue? In this blog (and [...]
Business case, Equipment
IP address management continues to challenge enterprise IT managers who often find themselves stuck between having to save cash and needing a better way to track core network services.
Companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, BT Diamond IP, BlueCat Networks and Infoblox deliver products for IP address management as well as DNS and DHCP services. [...]
