Numbers strong for IPv6 Hui in NZ
Over 180 registrations have been received for the IPv6 Hui business technology events in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch next week. The events will focus on roadmaps and corporate adoption of IPv6 – the next-generation Internet addressing protocol.
The final programme has now been confirmed and can be viewed at:
www.ipv6.org.nz/IPv6HuiProgramme.pdf
‘Father of the Internet’ Dr Vint Cerf is keynote speaker for the Auckland and Wellington legs. IPv6 expert Professor Hiroshi Esaki from Tokyo University will keynote the Christchurch event via videoconference.
More event details, including a link to register, can be found at: www.ipv6.org.nz/hui.html
IPv6 hits NZ internet backbone
The next-generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, has been much discussed but long in coming around the world. I’ve been playing around with it on Linux and FreeBSD, as well as Windows, but having to use tunnel brokers overseas has put some brakes on my IPv6 experience.
This looks set to change now that FX Networks, a national backbone provider, has announced that its network is natively running IPv6 in parallel with IPv4. With IPv4 address space predicted to run out next year, New Zealand is sailing rather close to the wind on deploying IPv6.
[ Source : ZDNet Australia ]
