Comcast has been conducting IPv6 technical trials in our production network for more than a year, and we’ve been working diligently on IPv6 deployment for over 6 years. After so many years of challenging preparatory work, significant technology investment, internal [...]
IT administrators are nearly unanimous that a transition to IPv6 is important, and seven out of 10 say their companies will make the jump within the next two years, according to a Network World survey. But only 13% of respondents [...]
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The Global IPv6 Deployment survey 2011 between 1/07/2011 – 31/07/2011. This survey is designed by GNKS Consult in collaboration with TNO and RIPE NCC, based on a design originally by ARIN/CAIDA in 2008, and has been carried out in 2009 [...]
Why It Matters to Facebook World IPv6 Day will allow us to better understand how our infrastructure and code perform under IPv6 while minimizing impact on our users. Since January, we’ve conducted several studies and tests of our own and [...]
On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to [...]
Imagine if the world ran out of phone numbers. Mobile providers could issue no more smartphones, businesses could create no new call centers, and the public would be left fighting over and recycling a diminishing amount of existing phone numbers. [...]
In all likelihood, you won’t even notice the test. The vast majority (99.95%) of people will be able to access services without interruption: either they’ll connect over IPv6, or their systems will successfully fall back to IPv4. However, as with [...]
Brandon Carroll of GlobalConfig.net recently launched a new specialized training program at MyIPv6Tutor.com. He has developed the program specifically to help networkers who may not have the time to pour over books get up and running with IPv6. Registration before [...]
APNIC, the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the Asia Pacific region, announced that it has distributed the final IPv4 address space from its reserves of IPv4. This means that APNIC is now supplying IPv4 address space to its members from [...]
