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Largest US IPv6 network welcomes rivals

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:00:32 +0000

Hurricane Electric, the nation’s leading provider of IPv6 services, is bracing for new and bigger competitors entering the fray.

[via arnnet.com]

What’s driving this university to IPv6? Going green

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:56:36 +0000

Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus.

[via Network World]

Comcast Preps for IPv6

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:07:01 +0000

Comcast Corporation, the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services, today demonstrated end-to-end network readiness for the transition to next-generation Internet addressing protocols (IPv6) and will ensure continued support for its customers through this transition.

[via - Cable Digital News]

Interop Las Vegas 2009 IPv6 Survey

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:47:02 +0000

Last week in Las Vegas, the Interop show took place. An unofficial count of 14,000 technology buyers and enthusiasts attended. While much lower than its record (over 100,000 strong), the show is still the biggest technology show which features a major presence by virtually every networking vendor. While exhibiting at Interop, we decided to walk the Interop Expo and ask the IPv6 support question to see if the mainstream corporate and enterprise space agrees with the need to think beyond IPv4.

[via circleid]

IPv6… Canada about to score?

admin — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:17:03 +0000

USA-Canada World Championship hockey games never fail to elicit great excitement. In the IPv6 adoption world league however, the US seems to have a convincing lead over their northern neighbour but the game is not over yet, here come the Canucks.

[via go6 IPv6 Blog - Yves Poppe]

EXFO Simplifies Testing for IPv6

ipv6dotcom — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:09:22 +0000

EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering (EXFO) implemented optional IPv6 testing that can be extended for the complete portfolio of transport and data communication test modules. This testing enables the efficiency and nurtures the rapid development motto of next generation IP services.

The portfolio of transport and datacom modules includes the complete Packet Blazer series (FTB/IQS-8510B, FTB/IQS-8510G, FTB/IQS-8525 and FTB/IQS-8535), the Power Blazer series (FTB/IQS-8120NGE and FTB/IQS-8130NGE) and the AXS-200/850 Ethernet Test Set.

The service providers have the advantage of using the complete Ethernet testing for IPv4 and IPv6 deployments that include BERT, RFC 2544 and advanced layer 3 and 4 multistream traffic generation and analysis.

Etienne Gagnon, EXFO’s Vice-President of Product Management and Marketing says..

“The wireless industry has been instrumental in driving the wide-spread adoption of advanced multimedia services; but in order to sustain this growth, government bodies and service providers worldwide must rapidly convert their network infrastructures to support the greater routing and address translation demands of IPv6 addressing schemes,”

The Slow Mainstreaming of IPv6

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:31:17 +0000

Slowly, we’re making progress mainstreaming IPv6. I wanted to post on a few interesting developments.

Netflix has IPv6

Late last month, Netflix got an IPv6 allocation from ARIN, and they’re advertising it in BGP. It doesn’t appear that they’re offering any services over IPv6 yet, but this is a good first step. I look forward to the day I can stream movies to my Netflix set-top box over IPv6.

[via Derek Morr. Circle ID]

Google ramps up IPv6 mission, google.com a year away

admin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:51:18 +0000

Google has begun preaching the wonders of IPv6 in the hope more awareness will help expedite the transition from the legacy IPv4 networks most people use today.

During a presentation at this year’s linux.conf.au in Hobart, senior Google software engineer Angus Lees recalled how Google’s IPv6 efforts started as a covert, hobbyist project about two years ago and has gained enough momentum that a AAAA record for google.com could be added to Google’s DNS in a year.

[via NetworkWorld]

Access Google services over IPv6

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:54:31 +0000

At Google, we believe that IPv6 is essential to the continued health and openness of the Internet – and that by allowing all devices on a network to talk to each other directly, IPv6 will enable innovation and allow the Internet’s continued growth.

[via Google Alert]

IPv6: the must have for 2009

admin — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:31:36 +0000

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.

[via InternetWorld]