Tag Archive | "deployment"

IPv4 Exhaustion

What You Need to Know about IPv6
07 Jul 2010

The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, is running out of open addresses, and a new scheme called IPv6 is being put in place to power the Internet’s next stage of growth. More [...]
All news, Equipment

Webinar: another looming deadline – transition to IPv6
01 Jul 2010

It is predicted that the pool of IPv4 addresses will be depleted within a year, possibly even before that. Every single ISP must upgrade its network to handle IPv6. IPv6 experts from CableLabs, the SCTE, Suddenlink and Incognito Software provided a rundown of recommended migration options, details about the specific subsystems in service provider networks [...]
All news, Business case, Equipment

Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie deploys IPv6-ready collaboration technologies to simplify IT infrastructure and increase operational efficiency
30 Jun 2010

Cisco today announced that the Conseil Régional de Basse-Normandie (CRBN) has deployed Cisco Unified Communications Manager, running the new version of Internet Protocol (IPv6), to simplify its communications infrastructure. The deployments will facilitate the implementation of new IPv6-based collaboration applications and services and help improve operational efficiency. The new system will operate with the council’s [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion

Internet approaches addressing limit
11 May 2010

In less than 18 months there will be no more big blocks of net addresses to give out, estimates suggest. Predictions name 9 September 2011 as the date on which the last of those tranches is released for net firms and others to use. More from BBC Online… Bookmark and share...
All news, IPv4 Exhaustion

A wake-up call for the Internet
09 Oct 2009

Hello, from Geneva where I’ve been attending the ITU Telecom World Conference for the last few days. It’s been three years since the last show, and it’s energizing to see the ever increasing recognition as to the increased role that the network can play in improving business and change lives. While different sections of the [...]
Government, IPv4 Exhaustion

Govt to adopt advanced Internet protocol
17 Sep 2009

Government is keen to promote Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), by replacing Internet Protocol version 4(IPv4), said D K Agarwal, Advisor (Technology), Department of Telecommunication, New Delhi.IPv4 is the most popular Internet protocol platform used in the world. A protocol is a set of rules used by computers to communicate with each other across a [...]
Government, IPv4 Exhaustion

Tunisia switches to “next generation” Internet Protocol
15 Sep 2009

The national commission in charge for the migration towards Internet Protocol Version IPV6 held its first meeting on September 13, 2009 in Tunis. IPV6 is the  ”next generation” protocol designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to replace the current Internet Protocol version (”IPv4″). The new  Internet Layer Protocol for packed-switched internetworks, is endowed with a larger [...]
Business case, Equipment, Telco

Hurricane Electric to participate at the Digital Government Institute’s IPv6 conference
11 Sep 2009

Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will be a speaker at the Digital Government Institute’s Next Generation Internet: How IPv6 Enables Agency Operations conference on September 17th in Washington, DC. Martin Levy will be featured on an afternoon panel entitled “IPv6 [...]
ICANN, Policy, RIRs

Selecting which /8 to allocate to an RIR
10 Sep 2009

I’ve previously written about the problem with IPv4 /8s which have been used to number IP networks in an unofficial and improper way. The problem is that the unofficial usage makes it more difficult for ISPs to bring these addresses into use when they are officially allocated and so less desirable. But we have to allocate [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion

China’s IP address will be used up in 2 years
25 Aug 2009

As the number of internet users keeps soaring, China’s IP address will be used up in two or three years, according to Wu Hequan, an expert from the Chinese Academy of Engineering. China now has 380 million internet users. Every two of them use one IP address. People seldom feel inconvenienced right now, because not everyone [...]