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IPv6 Perfect Storm | No Comments

IPv6 Forum Fellow, North American IPv6 Task Force Technology Director, and HP Distinguished Technologist and Strategist, Yanick Pouffary, wonders: Over the past decade there have been many papers and news articles written about IPv6. So why write yet another article on IPv6 today? What has changed? The news is that IPv6 is already present on [...]

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Why do we need IPv6? | No Comments

OK, let’s hypothesize here for a moment….close your eyes, well figuratively, not literally, or else you won’t be able to read my text and you’ll miss my point for sure!!
Thanks to a recent unrelated conversation with one of my Twitter friends this came up:
Close your eyes and imagine for a moment that General Motors [...]

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Where Does IPsec Fit Into An IPv6 Architectures? | No Comments

Securing network infrastructures is a never-ending quest of figuring out where to deploy the most effective strategies in a specific environment. While it is common to use IPsec for site-to-site IPv4 VPN environments, it is underutilized for host-to-host communication, which could offer a far greater improvement for secured communications. If IPv6 deployments are [...]

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Are There Benefits to an IPv6 NAT Solution? | No Comments

Over the years, IPv6 proponents have offered many reasons for the adoption. As a core networking protocol, it is difficult to assign a fabulous and compelling business case – IPv6 is, after all, just plumbing. But if I had to sum it up, IPv6 is about scalability and a restoration of the end-to-end architecture originally [...]

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v6 Bulletin Updates, News, & Eventsarchive

Archive for March, 2009

Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 26, 2009 Comments Comments Off

The Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force hosts its second annual IPv6 Technology Conference from April 21-22.

‘Network Citizens’: Unprecedented Panel of Internet Architects to Openly Discuss Anticipated Stages of IPv6 Adoption
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 25, 2009 Comments Comments Off

For the first time ever, ISOC opens the IETF meeting of Internet Architects to journalists.

6LoWPAN Goes Where ZigBee Can’t
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 25, 2009 Comments Comments Off

The IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN) removes the ZigBee-to-IP translation step and simplifies communication between Internet devices.

What Kind of Cyber-security Czar Do We Want?
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 25, 2009 Comments Comments Off

President Obama promises to prioritize cyber-security. But can the government truly establish authority over the Internet?

The Slow Mainstreaming of IPv6
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 25, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Slowly but surely, the industry is progressing towards IPv6.

The Avalanche is Just Around the Corner.
Posted by: Kazuhiro Gomi on March 17, 2009 Comments No Comments

IPv6 has been identified as one of the key technologies in sustaining the healthy growth of the Internet. NTT Communications (NTT Com) recognized the importance of IPv6 early on and in 2001 began an initiative to implement IPv6 network connectivity service. We were the first service provider offering dual-stack transit worldwide in 2004, [...]

In Memoriam: Jim Bound
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 17, 2009 Comments Comments Off

The IPv6 community loses a guiding light with the passing of Jim Bound.

ARIN Asks: Are You Ready?
Posted by: Richard Jimmerson on March 16, 2009 Comments 1 Comment

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the nonprofit corporation that distributes IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) to Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States. [...]

Google IPv6 Implementors Conference
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 14, 2009 Comments Comments Off

NTT Communications' Cody Christman to speak at Google's IPv6 Implementors Conference.

Executive IPv6 Guide: Not If, When
Posted by: NTT Communications on March 13, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Network World Magazine's Executive IPv6 Guide features stories and articles that frames the state of the IPv6 transition around the globe.