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Even though IPv6 adoption is dangerously slow, we will see adoption eventually. There are three main sections of the Internet that need to handle IPv6. The Internet networking equipment like routers, proxies and firewalls, and services like DNS and routing [...]
According to engineers at Hurricane Electric and iNetcore, by mid September, 2011, the Internet registries are expected to run out of routable IP addresses to assign. On the Seinfeld episode, “The Dealership,” Kramer takes a test drive. The salesman asks [...]
Since 2005, bgpexpert.com been compiling an IPv4 address use report every year. With the start of the new decade, this is a good moment to start doing the same thing for IPv6. This page shows the amount of IPv6 space [...]
Google has announced plans to implement ipv6 on YouTube. networkworld.com gives some extra information about Google’s plans with IPv6: Google already supports IPv6 with its Search, Alerts, Docs, Finance, Gmail, Health, iGoogle, News, Reader, Picasa, Maps and Wave products. Google’s [...]
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The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory in July conducted the first trial of the U.S. federal government’s new IPv6 test suite on equipment from 10 leading network vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Sun. The National Institute of [...]
American Registry for Internet Numbers president expects federal mandate soon for agencies to begin enabling new protocols on public-facing Web servers The pool of available IPv4 addresses will be completely allocated in the not-too-distant future. “It will happen 717 days [...]
WHILE EVERYONE in the US is enthusiastic about plans to upgrade the nation’s electric power infrastructure to a ‘smart grid’ there could be a spinoff benefit for Internet IPv6 adoption. According to Internet News, Cisco has started its own smart [...]
The next generation of Internet Protocols has some security features built into it, but IPv6 is not inherently more secure than the current IPv4 now in use, said Brett Thorson, network and security architect at Excivity and a security adviser [...]
