Adventures in Tech: Dive on in, the IPv6 is lovely

Part 2 In the previous part I explored why you should limber up to IPv6 sooner rather than later, and now heres my experience actually walking the talk.

Importantly, mine is not a big-bang approach. Im not trying to have everything perfect for IPv6 immediately, but rather I want to do just enough to be visible in the brave new world, safely, and tie up loose ends later as I go along.

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2011-11-08 09:19:22, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/uN0NsJPJ2R4/

Time to embrace IPv6, not to run from it

By most any measure, the Internet has been wildly successful. From its beginnings over 40 years ago, the Internet has become a globe-spanning infrastructure upon which national economies now depend. However, that very success has led the Internet to a crossroads and the path the Internet takes moving forward will have an impact on how the network continues to grow and its openness to innovation.

To help explain the situation, imagine a city that is growing so rapidly that all the telephone numbers in the city’s single area code are nearly used up.

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2011-11-07 09:14:57, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/hWUMP_aH5Xs/

IPv4 Historical Imbalances and the Threat to IPv6

It is an open secret that the current state of IPv4 allocation contains many accidental historical imbalances and in particular developing countries who wish to use IPv4 are disadvantaged by the lack of addresses available through ordinary allocation and are forced into purchasing addresses on the open market. As most of the addresses for sale are held by organisations based in the developed world, this amounts to a transfer of wealth from the developing world to the developed world, on terms set by the developed world.
Complete info at CircleID.

2011-11-06 23:50:08, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8162

The spectrum auction's forgotten issue

In all the talk about the 4G services that should come out of next year's spectrum auction, the question of IP addressing deserves serious attention, says Axel Pawlik.
Complete info at ZDNet.

2011-11-06 13:29:41, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8161

Hurricane Electric's Director of IPv6 Professional Services to Speak at the Information Management Network (IMN) Real Estate and Finance for Data Centers Forum in Los Angeles

Hurricane Electric, the world's leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that Owen DeLong, Hurricane Electric's IPv6 Evangelist and Director of Professional Services, will speak at IMN's second annual Fall Forum on Financing, Investing and Real Estate Development for Data Centers, which takes place November 9-10 at the Hyatt Century Plaza in Los Angeles.
Complete info at SunHerald, Benzinga and Virtual-Strategy.

2011-11-06 13:27:44, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8160

Brightbox Launches The UK?s first IPv6-ready Cloud Firewall Service

Brightbox, the UKs first multi-datacentre Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) has launched a new distributed Cloud Firewall service which provides a powerful and highly-configurable facility for controlling network access to, from and between customer?s Cloud Servers within Brightbox Cloud.
Complete info at DigitalJournal, MarketWatch and PRWeb.

2011-11-06 13:21:44, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8159

HGI Announces NTT as a key auditor for its Largest Ever Test Event

The world's leading organisation for defining requirements for the digital home will focus on leading-edge home gateway performance at its third annual test event.
Complete info at ITWire and Sys-Con.

2011-11-06 13:14:25, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8158

The Rise of IPv6: Part 9, IPv6 Neighbor Discovery

In our previous tutorial, we examined the capabilities of the Internet Control Message Protocol, version 6 (ICMPv6), which reports errors that occur during packet processing, plus internal network diagnostic functions.
Complete info at TelecomReseller.

2011-11-06 13:12:11, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8157

IPv4 and IPv6: A short guide

Internet is a network of millions of computers and related devices, which require its own unique address for identification. Unless such recognition can be given, data could not be communicated from one device to another through Internet. Therefore, the technology governing such unique recognition is known as the Internet Protocol (IP) and at present, the most widely used IP is known as IP version 4 (IPv4).

How IPv4 does enable unique addresses?

In certain instances, Internet users come across addresses such as 92.48.255.255 and for a particular device accessing the Internet; it would be its IP address. When communicating through Internet, both the sending device as well as the receiving device should have its own IP or else the ‘IP marked data packets’ do not have the ability to negotiate through the Internet. IPv4 technology enabled more than four billion IP addresses to be assigned and in the beginning, this seems to be more than enough for many decades to come.

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2011-11-03 10:56:19, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/XZt7971hevA/

Juniper Networks, Inc. : Juniper Networks to Showcase IPv6 Leadership and Strength at gogoNET LIVE! 2

Juniper Networks, the industry leader in network innovation, today announced its gold sponsorship and participation at gogoNET LIVE! 2 , a live version of the gogoNET social network that provides members with an opportunity to share their IPv6 knowledge and expertise. The conference, being held in San Jose, Calif. from November 1-3, will host the largest gathering of IPv6 professionals in North America.
Complete info at 4-traders and MenaFN.

2011-11-01 12:04:35, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=8156