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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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Archive for September, 2009

Agencies Should Plan Now to Enable IPv6 on Public-Facing Servers
Posted by: admin on September 23, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Be it in 717 or 657 days, depending on whose countdown clock you use, in approximately two years all new IP address assignments will be made with IPv6 addresses.

Security Will Not Come Naturally With IPv6
Posted by: admin on September 23, 2009 Comments Comments Off

IPv6 can be used to block, shield and hide data on a network, and hackers are already learning how to exploit these characteristics.

The Internet Took Almost 40 Years to Consume All IPv4 Addresses
Posted by: admin on September 23, 2009 Comments Comments Off

To celebrate the Internet’s upcoming 40th birthday on October 29th, as well as IEEE’s 125th anniversary, the IEEE held an international event featuring many renowned Internet experts.

Lantronix Debuts SpiderDuo(TM) KVM-Over-IP Solution, Providing Flexible Local and Network Access to Remote Computers
Posted by: admin on September 18, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Lantronix, Inc. adds SpiderDuo to its Spider(TM) family of keyboard, video, and mouse-over-IP solutions. And it’s IPv6-certified.

Comment: The Internet Needs an Extension
Posted by: admin on September 18, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Axel Pawlik, managing director of RIPE NCC, says that running out of IP addresses is the biggest threat the Internet faces today.

Will the Web Run Out of Numbers?
Posted by: admin on September 10, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Vint Cerf says IPv6 will provide “enough address space to last until after I'm dead."

Air Force Makes Progress on IPv6
Posted by: admin on September 10, 2009 Comments Comments Off

The initial months of IPv6 testing on the Elgin Air Force Base’s backbone have proved to be successful.

No Summer Break for IPv6
Posted by: admin on September 10, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Yves Poppe shares the most recent IPv6 action in India, New Zealand and the United States.

DoD Updates IPv6 Standard Profile
Posted by: admin on September 3, 2009 Comments Comments Off

The Department of Defense (DoD) has released version 4.0 of the IPv6 Standard Profiles for IPv6 Capable Products.

When the Internet Breaks, Who Ya Gonna Call?
Posted by: admin on September 3, 2009 Comments Comments Off

Jason Turner, correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor, says Internet software is starting to show its age