Stonesoft Firewall/VPN Receives VPN Consortium?s IPv6 IPsec Certification

Network security provider Stonesoft today announced that its Firewall/VPN 5.3 solution has passed the VPN Consortium?s (VPNC) Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) testing criteria.
Complete info at Virtual-Strategy, MarketWatch and TheStreet.

2011-12-22 10:35:08, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8259

I Want IPv6 for Christmas - Part II

IPv6 gifts can you give for the holidays.
Complete info at NetworkWorld.

2011-12-22 10:27:51, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8258

IP Address Space Covered by Certificates

Since the RIPE NCC launched its Resource Certification service, there is a steady increase in the number of prefixes covered by certificates.
Complete info at CircleID.

2011-12-22 10:26:25, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8257

Rising Cybercrime Pushes African Governments to Take Action

New CERTs have been set up in South Africa, Kenya, Morocco, Ivory Coast and Tunisia.
Complete info at CSO, CFOWorld and ComputerWorld.

2011-12-22 10:25:04, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8256

IPv6 – Get ready for the transition…and avoid becoming obsolete

Much of our current thinking about networking for physical security systems lags behind the advances of technology. Because advancements come more rapidly every year, it is no longer sufficient to base our thinking on “the latest technology.”

We have to take technology trends into account if we wish to deploy systems that will have useful lives of 5 to 10 years, and which can use and be used by new technology as it arrives in the coming decade.

In the late 1990s, there was much activity in the Internet standards community. The dot-com boom was rolling, use of the Internet was expanding, and commerce-based cryptography and security standards were just being developed. Many network protocols were devised, refined and/or standardized during this time. Among these was IPv6, the solution to IPv4 address limitation as well as a logical evolution of the Internet for many reasons.

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2011-12-19 10:23:14, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/uRCYrvFi92Y/

Evolving Networks’ Prediction for 2012 – IPv6

IPv4 is the most commonly used Internet layer protocol and at the writing of this article is used by the vast majority of devices connected to the Internet.

There are over four billion possible IPv4 addresses that can be used.  However due to the increase in usages of smartphones, laptops and tablets, theses addresses are running out quickly.

Earlier in the year the IANA announced that The future of the Internet is in IPv6. All Internet stakeholders must now take definitive action to deploy IPv6. This is due to the last IPv4 addresses having been allocated.  At Evolving Networks we believe that in 2012, the switch over from IPv4 to IPv6 will begin to gather serious momentum.

So what is IPv6 and how is it different to its predecessor?

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2011-12-19 09:55:20, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/RKnQzkBfw3I/

Comcast expands IPv6 services into four more states

Comcast continues to extend its leadership role in the adoption of next-generation Internet services with the news that it has expanded its production IPv6 deployment into four more states — Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania and New Jersey — over the past six weeks.

Comcast made the announcement here yesterday at a technical seminar sponsored by Network World called The Critical Path to IPv6.

Comcast launched its production IPv6 deployment on Oct. 31 in the East Bay area of San Francisco with 100 customers. Now Comcast says it has more than 1,000 users of IPv6 nationwide.

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2011-12-19 09:21:30, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/GxDH8mmsupo/

Tech Stories of 2011: IPv6, Android, and Anonymous Rank in Top 10

In 2011, the increasingly mobile and socially networked world of technology became more intertwined than ever with politics and the law. Patent wars shaped competition in tablets and smartphones, hacktivists attacked a widening array of political and corporate targets, repressive regimes unplugged citizens from the Internet, and the U.S. government moved to block the giant merger of AT&T and T-Mobile USA. With the passing of Steve Jobs, the world lost a technology icon who redefined the computer, entertainment and consumer electronics industries. These are the IDG News Services picks for the top 10 technology stories of the year:

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2011-12-19 09:20:19, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/OgswTMfLWAs/

300 Trillion Reasons to Switch to IPv6, According to Load Balancer Companies

Never let it be said “The Inquirer” doesn’t know how to grab attention: “The Internet is doomed until European businesses and organizations begin to move towards IPv6.”

That’s their quote from Neelie Kroes, vice president of the European Commission responsible for the Digital Agenda. Rather nicely frames the importance of the issue, doesn’t it?

At the recently German IPv6 summit, in addition to that dire pronouncement, Kroes also said Europeans are “starting to see close ahead of us the consequences if we dont make the switch to IPv6.”

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2011-12-19 09:19:13, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/6xc3KfVVjX8/

The Internet Protocol IPv6: A Universal Language

We are at the dawn of the age of IPv6, the Internet protocol that will succeed version 4. With 340 undecillion available addresses, IPv6 ensures that the Internet can continue growing and offers advantages in terms of stability, flexibility, and simplicity in network administration.

The Internet is a communications network formed by millions of interconnected computers that share data and resources. All the computers on the network use the Internet protocol (IP) so that users can read a web page or send an e-mail and be sure that information is properly sent and received. The protocol assigns a numeric code (IP address) to each device on the network in order to identify it. In other words, “the IP protocol is the universal language that allows all the devices connected to the Internet to understand each other,” says Xavier Hesselbach, a member of the research group on Design and Evaluation of Broadband Networks and Services.

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2011-12-19 09:18:14, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/5f1ACWwXMR8/