Today is World IPv6 Launch day. World IPv6 Launch is a follow-on event to last year’s IPv6 day where IPv6 was used for a day. The World IPv6 Launch is the ultimate recognition of the “world” turning on IPv6 and leaving it on: a true milestone for the Internet. Cisco, along with major Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6. So as we cel…

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Tags: byod, enterprise networks, IPv6, mobility, wlan

We’re pleased to announce that Cisco is joining The Internet Society for World IPv6 Day, a 24-hour global “test drive” of IPv6 on June 8, 2011. For over 25 years, Cisco has been central to the development of the Internet Protocol (IP) that has helped fuel the incredible growth in global connectivity the world enjoys today. Very soon, the free pool of IPv4 addresses will finally run dry, and IPv6 is the only long-term solution the industry has av…

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Tags: Cisco, internet protocol, Internet Society, ip, ipv4, IPv6, World IPv6 Day

When I was younger and faced with a large problem, I tended to shy away from the problem and take other paths to avoid the issue in the hope that the issue either got smaller or ideally went away.  I’m finding that as an adult, you cannot always do that.  Some issues just will not go away no matter how hard you try to avoid them or how creative your excuses get for why they are not important right now. Integrating IPv6 into your network is one o…

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Tags: IPv6, IPv6 addressing, World IPv6 Day

In a previous blog, I discussed questions you should ask before peering with your SP and possible configuration options.  Since the Internet edge is where this peering occurs, it should also be the first point where you start to apply your organization’s security policies.  Security is a critical part of IPv6 integration because IPv6 opens up another transport path into your network. Analysis of Current Capabilities The first step in dealing wi…

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Tags: Cisco Services, IPv6, IPv6-security, NAT, NPTv6

My previous two posts have been about the address planning process and how to break into the IPv6 integration process. I’ve tried to show that IPv6 is a task that you should be interested in and that it is not an intractable problem. However, I know that some people are still questioning why they would ever want to take this task on. I typically hear comments along the lines of “IPv4 is working for my organization and we’ve got plenty of address…

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Tags: IPv6, mobile devices, security, security policy