Where is the Internet going? What comes next with regard to IPv6, DNSSEC and other technologies? At our ION San Diego event on December 11, 2012, we had a great panel session called “Advancing the Network – Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Headed” where we explored exactly these issues. Moderated by Shumon Huque of the Read more…
Following up on our recent post about the live demo of how 464XLAT can enable IPv4-only apps to work on IPv6-only networks, T-Mobile’s Cameron Byrne explains some of the challenges of enabling IPv6 for mobile networks and how 464XLAT came about. Cameron is one of the co-authors of RFC 6877 that documents this approach. P.S. Read more…
At the World IPv6 Congress in Paris last week, Cisco’s Mark Townsley gave this great interview about the business case for IPv6 in mobile networks: It was great to hear his mention that Verizon is sending 30% of its traffic to Google over IPv6 as well as the mention of IPv6 growth on other mobile Read more…
In this session from ION Sao Paulo moderated by Christian O’Flaherty, panelists Jiří Průša (Czech Republic), Cristiano Hauck Chevitarese (Brazil), Régison Martins (Brazil), and Shernon Osepa (Curacao) discussed how their own governments and agencies have worked to encourage IPv6 adoption across the region. From the session abstract: Experiencing a 40% increase in its unique IP address count over Read more…
At last month’s ION Sao Paulo, our Dan York moderated a forward-thinking panel with Tom Coffeen (Infoblox), Alex Felipelli (Akamai), Daniel Fuchs (Datora Telecom), and Demi Getschko (NIC.BR). Panelists discussed successes from the past year in moving things like IPv6 and DNSSEC forward, and their ideas for how to improve the network even more going into 2013. Read more…
Check out this video from ION Sao Paulo last month, where Cameron Byrne (T-Mobile USA), Valdinei Rodrigues dos Reis (Universidade Estadual Paulista), and Arturo Servin (LACNIC) discussed how they deployed IPv6 in their own networks. From the session abstract: IPv6 has been available from the Regional Internet Registries for 15 years now. Where are enterprise organizations Read more…
What is IPv6 all about? Why do you need it? How do you get it? These are the questions a recent event hosted by the Colorado (US) chapter of the Internet Society on August 28, 2012, sought to answer. The session began with a keynote by Scott Hogg, Director,Technology Solutions, Global Technology Resources (GTRI) and Read more…
The good folks over at RIPE NCC recently published a video showing 4 days of IPv6 connectivity statistics in under 3 minutes. RIPE NCC’s Rene Wilhem goes into great detail in the companion blog post about how they measured the 60 sites included in the survey and some of their observations. As you start watching Read more…
What are all the numbers, letters and slashes about in an IPv6 address? Why do ISPs give out such huge allocations of IPv6 addresses just for a home network? Couldn’t we use smaller address blocks? Are we setting ourselves up for future issues? Or does this all make sense? By way of our friends at Read more…
The folks at RhinoSoft recently published a video on YouTube showing how their “Serv-U” FTP server and “FTP Voyager” FTP client all work with IPv6. While obviously focused on one vendor’s implementation, it provides an interesting view into how IPv6 can work with FTP. Kudos to the team at RhinoSoft for making this video available. Read more…