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All news, Telco
Popular Canadian independent ISP Teksavvy has posted an announcement to our forums that the ISP is starting IPv6 trials, and is looking for customers willing to test the new technology.
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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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All news, Telco
The theme of the 40th International Institute of Communications (IIC) conference in Montreal this week was “Wrestling with unpredictability in Global Communications”. The panel I had the pleasure to be part of was under the motto : “Broadband futures”. One of the questions addressed to me : Should we be concerned about a shortage of [...]
Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced immediate availability of LSI(TM) Broadband Access Software Release 8.1 for the family of LSI APP communications processors. The new software supports the IPv6 protocol, including enhanced security and quality of service (QoS) management capabilities that are crucial to the effective delivery of services over IPv6, in addition to supporting [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
Australia is one of the countries leading the way in IPv6 adoption, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report which calls for more network operators to follow its lead as IPv4 is running out.
“The growth in broadband subscriptions has helped fuel the expansion of the Internet and also been one of [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
Network operator Entanet UK has warned that many broadband ISPs could be missing a “competitive opportunity” by adopting a risky “wait and see” approach to IPv6 adoption. The group, which supplies several ISPs and is itself an early adopter of IPv6, said that some providers could perhaps be deemed “technically negligent” and risk “compromising network [...]
Business case, Equipment, Government, IPv4 Exhaustion, Policy
Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, the not-for-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet, explains the impact that country-wide broadband will have on this infrastructure in the UK.
The recently published Digital Britain report outlined the Government’s plan to equip every household in the UK with high-speed broadband by 2012. This will [...]
IPv4 Exhaustion
Internet addresses are running out. What’s New Zealand doing about it?
It’s no news that the pool of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is running out. Thanks to the internet growing rapidly with increased broadband uptake, legacy over-allocations of blocks and with no effort to conserve remaining routable IPv4 address space, estimates say by [...]
Business case, Government, IPv4 Exhaustion
One of the Internet’s founding fathers and modern evangelists, Vinton Cerf, warned a gathering of government and technology industry leaders that the Internet “still lacks many features that it needs,” including essential authentication and security tools. But he urged the leaders to support a national broadband policy that provides universal, high-speed Internet access, not merely [...]
Equipment, Government, IPv4 Exhaustion
Axel Pawlik, managing director, RIPE NCC, the European internet address registrar:
“The more widespread the internet becomes, the more computers will be connected to the UK-wide network. For the ‘broadband for all by 2012′ vision of the UK government to become a reality, we need a dramatic increase in the number of IP addresses, the numeric [...]
