The Internet Protocol required upgrading…solution…IPv6
2009 will undoubtedly be another exciting year of interesting developments in the technology industry. We can expect to see a combination of emerging technologies, and the mainstreaming of technology that we have seen coming for some time. An enabler for these new technologies is IPv6.
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The NRO consists of five Regional Internet Registries (RIR), each representing a different part of the world: Africa, Asia, the North Atlantic region, Latin America and parts of the Caribbean, and Europe and the Middle East. The registries are in charge of critical internet resource allocation and the management of IP address data.According to the [...]
The IPv6 Workgroup of the Linux Foundation has announced that all major Linux distributions are now in compliance with Department of Defense certification policies, several months after the DoD began enforcing the requirements in its procurement practices. The compliance effort was driven by a collaboration involving IBM, Red Hat, Novell, Nokia, and several other major [...]
Search engine giant Google is taking the next steps towards IPv6. Admittedly, as Google developer and IPv6 expert Lorenzo Colitti said at the RIPE meeting in Dubai, having an IPv6 entry for the central www.google.com web page is still regarded as too ambitious. The problem is that about one in 10,000 users won’t be able [...]
Baidu.com (BIDU.NASDAQ) announced on Thursday that it has deepened its strategic cooperation with Cisco, and the alliance has realized the research and development, deploy and testing of an imitated Internet platform scheme. Research group co-established by the two parties has completed the ultimate bearing capacity test of “next generation” Internet platform. In addition, it will [...]
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), with the help of the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), surveyed 1100 people across the world to gather data regarding current and future use of IPv6. Results suggest that interest in IPv6 is growing, although activity is more likely to occur in research and education networks [...]
The ICANN blog recently discussed the adoption of IPv6, and assumed readers would be shocked to find out which region is showing the widest adoption of the new protocol. Not surprisingly, the largest number of networks displaying the new address blocks are those registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean.
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ATLANTA, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ — InfoWeapons, provider of next
generation Internet Protocol (IPv6) appliances and secure applications,
announces helping the U.S. move into the lead in “IPv6 Ready” Gold level
certifications worldwide, for the first time. IPv6 is positioned to be the
standard protocol for the next-generation Internet, by 2010. As of August
2008, the U.S. has 68 Gold [...]
In the West, we’re always told that we’re IPv6 laggards and that large parts of Asia are already running the new protocol. But apparently, China has some work to do before the whole country is IPv6-ready, too. Li Kai, who is director in charge of the IP business for CNNIC, has told ChinaTechNews that the [...]
The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) plans to deploy an IPv6-capable video surveillance system to 40,000 postal sites across the country. In addition to providing high-quality video, the system is expected to provide the USPS with enhanced mobility, security and network management capabilities. The new video platform will be integrated into the existing USPS network.
An IP-based [...]