Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong joins Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro to discuss TunnelBroker.net. What’s TunnelBroker.net? It’s a free service from Hurricane Electric that lets you connect to the IPv6 Internet across an IPv4-only connection. Want to get started with IPv6? This is a great way to go

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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 skills development, and close collaboration with our technology partners, I am incredibly pleased to announce that we’ve achieved another critical milestone in our transition to IPv6 — we have started the pilot market deployment of IPv6 to customers in selected markets!

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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 motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

www.worldipv6day.org

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. “That’s a similar situation that we’re in on the Internet,” says Facebook’s Donn Lee, pointing out that the Web’s billions of IP addresses are about to hit its max.

Lee is Facebook’s lead engineer on IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, the first new version of the Internet’s addressing system in decades, which will provide trillions and trillions more unique addresses on the Web. Every time you go online or print a document at work, you’re essentially dialing a unique number–called an IP address–to communicate with other devices and computer networks. It’s no different than visiting a friend: You might know the name of his apartment building, but you’ll need an address and zip code in order to locate it on a map. The Web works in the same way, but as the number of homes and businesses and devices connected to the Internet continues to increase exponentially, we’re rapidly running out of space online. And now it’s up to Internet giants such as Facebook, Google, and Yahoo to fix the problem before it’s too late.

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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 May 15th is $197, and yields immediate access to the first two video lessons, with the other four becoming accessible on the 15th:

IPv6 features and benefits
IPv6 addressing
IPv6 headers
ICMPv6 – Why is this important?
Stateless and stateful autoconfiguration
A basic configuration of IPv6 on routers and desktop computers

The videos also come with downloadable MP3s and PDF transcripts. Brandon is an excellent trainer, and with World IPv6 Day less than a month away this is precisely the type of training some networkers need to finally make the push toward IPv6.

More informationhttp://myipv6tutor.com/

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 the last /8 it holds according to the guidelines in section 9.10 in “Policies for IPv4 address space management in the Asia Pacific region”.

APNIC’s objective during Stage Three is to provide IPv4 address space for new entrants to the market and for those deploying IPv6.

From now, all new and existing APNIC account holders will be entitled to receive a maximum allocation of a /22 from the Final /8 address space.

Start with your Internet service provider (ISP).  Although not every ISP currently provides IPv6 service, the list grows in proportion to customer demand

So contact your ISP today or set up an account with a tunnel broker. Ask your CDN about their support plans for IPv6.

http://blogs.cisco.com/borderless/how-to-get-ipv6-now/

Dutch organisation SURFnet has created a document that looks in depth at how they deployed IPv6 across their network. Intended for network architects and network managers implementing IPv6 in their organisations, the document has been translated by the RIPE NCC and is available online.

http://www.ipv6actnow.org/2011/03/surfnet-doc/

gogo6 Releases gogoCPE – World’s First v6 Adaptor

MONTREAL (February 4, 2011) – gogo6 inc., the leading provider of IPv6 products, community and services, today announced the release of gogoCPE version 1.0 – a small v6 adaptor for the home that can be installed and providing IPv6 within a minute. Designed to work with, rather than replace home networking equipment, the gogoCPE can be used to deploy IPv6 using IPv4 or to deploy IPv4 using IPv6 – both resulting in a dual-stack home network. Early customers of the gogoCPE include SingTel, Comcast and Globe Telecom.

The gogoCPE is plug ‘n’ play simple and designed to be installed by the end user without any support. The gogoCPE uses the same code as the gogoCLIENT which has reliably provided IPv6 to over 150,000 users of the Freenet6 service.

The gogoCPE supports the most popular transition technologies including TSP, DS-Lite, 6RD, DSTM and L2TP. It is compatible with the gogoSERVER and other manufacturer systems. Its wide technology support allows it to work in any IPv4/v6 network scenario, including:
Providing IPv6 to existing and new customers with IPv4 home routers in an IPv4 network.
Providing IPv4 to new customers with IPv4 home routers in an IPv6 network.
Providing IPv6 to new customers without IPv4 home routers in an IPv4 network.

“Hands down the most difficult part of introducing IPv6 into a broadband network is the home. This is where a majority of the IPv6 costs lie and where service providers have the least control. In a vast majority of the cases the home networking equipment is either not upgradable or owned by the end user making IPv6 synonymous with installing new equipment,” said Bruce Sinclair, gogo6 CEO. “The recent depletion of IPv4 addresses from the IANA pool increases the pressure on service providers to find a simple yet effective solution to offer v6 and v4 by way of v6. Service providers can quickly introduce IPv6 into their networks with a single 1U gogoSERVER and one gogoCPE per home.”

Availability and pricing
The gogoCPE is available today after being tested by service providers around the world. In addition to being sold in volume individual gogoCPEs are available on the gogo6 website. These units are preconfigured to work with Freenet6 making them plug ‘n’ play ready out of the box. Individual units cost $99 plus shipping and handling. Volume pricing is lower.

For detailed information on the gogoCPE go to: http://bit.ly/gogoCPEinfo
To purchase individual units of the gogoCPE go to: http://bit.ly/gogoCPEbuy
To request a volume quote contact: sales@gogo6.com

About gogo6
gogo6 connects the world to the new Internet with IPv6 products, community and services. gogoWARE products consist of the gogoSERVER, gogoCPE and gogoCLIENT. Together they provide interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 enabling the incremental deployment of IPv6. Its 70+ customers today consist mainly of service providers, governments, enterprise and research & education networks including: AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, SingTel, DISA, Lockheed Martin, GRNET and Renater. gogoNET is a social network and services for professionals to go v6 with over 40,000 members and includes the Freenet6 service which provides free IPv6 connectivity. For more information, go to: gogo6.com or visit us on Twitter, Facebook or YouTube.

Continues Long-Standing Commitment to Helping Customers Deploy IPv6

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 2, 2011 — Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) has announced that it will participate in ‘World IPv6 Day’ on June 8, 2011, a one-day ‘test drive’ of websites offering IPv6 support being sponsored by the Internet Society (ISOC). In this effort, Juniper is furthering its long-standing commitment to ensure its customers continue to be fully prepared for a transparent transition to the new IPv6 protocol to meet their respective market needs and business conditions.

World IPv6 Day will offer a global-scale test flight of IPv6, where major web and networking companies and other industry leaders will enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours. One key goal is to allow participants from all parts of the global Internet community to work towards the common goal of enabling IPv6 at a large scale with minimal disruption; another critical goal is to further promote the awareness of effective IPv4-to-IPv6 transition strategies and the ability to make that transition as seamless as possible.

‘This week’s anticipated announcement from the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA(1)] that the remaining large IPv4 address blocks have now been assigned has long been expected, and should not be misconstrued as alarming in any way–we believe the global Internet can continue its robust growth without interruption,’ said Alain Durand, director of software engineering, Juniper Networks Infrastructure Products Group. ‘Juniper Networks has been assisting its service provider and enterprise customers with a continuum of IPv4 exhaustion solutions, IPv6-enabled products and IPv4/IPv6 coexistence strategies for many years. Our participation in World IPv6 Day represents yet another extension of the IPv6 support we’ve delivered throughout our switching, routing and security solutions families, to now address our public website.’

IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence

Juniper Networks has invested significantly in developing a broad suite of technologies and solutions that help customers meet IP addressing needs while building out IPv6 networks as rapidly as their markets and services require. With most of the world’s Internet content addressed via IPv4 for decades to come, Juniper has continued to offer its customers support for robust NAT solutions, including Carrier Grade NAT (CGNAT) to ensure continued access to IPv4 devices, endpoints and content.

‘The vast majority of the world’s Internet content is addressable via IPv4,’ stated Michael Howard, principal analyst, carrier and data center networking, at Infonetics Research. ‘It’s clear that the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be a long, but very manageable process.’

‘IPv4 address depletion is an important and long-awaited inflection point in the continuing history of the Internet,’ continued Durand, who is scheduled to discuss IPv4/IPv6 issues at the V6 World Congress next week in Paris.

For more information about Juniper Networks IPv6 solutions, including the white paper, Tools and Strategies for Coping with IPv4 Address Depletion, see http://www.juniper.net/ipv6