Unless you have been asleep behind the wheel of your network, you know the IPv6 Internet will go live on June 6th, 2012 and Cisco is taking a leading role.  If you didn’t make it to Paris a few weeks back for v6 World Congress there are two upcoming events in Denver, Colorado where you can learn about deploying IPv6 in your network. 1. Breakfast Session: Making the IPv6 Transition will be held the morning of Tuesday March 20th from 7:30-930 am…

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Tags: 2012 North American IPv6 Summit, 6rd, Andrew Yourtchenko, announcements, cgv6, Denver Colorado, Dual Stack, Fred Baker, IETF IPv6 Operations Working Group, LISP, NAT64, Shannon McFarland, SLB64

I was interviewed recently for an article in Tweakers. It’s a good article, but I think a shade of meaning was lost in translation between Dutch and English. Hence, I’d like to restate the article in my own words. The nuance of meaning revolves around the words “danger”, “threat”, and “crisis”. Joost opened the interview asking me whether I thought that IPv4 depletion presented a threat, and whethe…

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Tags: ipv4, ipv4 address exhaustion, IPv6

IPv6 has been top of mind lately, with World IPv6 Day on June 8th that provided a global-scale test flight of IPv6 technology for the purpose of testing and data collection. Cisco also recently announced that French service provider SFR is using our Carrier Grade v6 solution to offer IPv6 services to their residential customers, while still preserving their existing infrastructure investments. Many people still have questions on the issues and o…

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Tags: 6rd, ACG Research, address translation, asr 1000, asr 9000, carrier grade ipv6, carrier grade nat, carrier grade services engine, carrier routing system, cgse, cgv6, cisco advanced services, CRS, Dual Stack, Gabriel Castro, ip addressing, ip networking, ipv4, IPv6, Kelly Ahuja, L2TP, prime network management, Ray Mota, Service Provider, Telecom Argentina, World IPv6 Day

These days, I’m often being asked “how much content is going to be on IPv6 out there, June 6th onward”, or “what is the true impact of World IPv6 Launch?” So I scratched my head, and tried to come up with a meaningful way to answer. Consider this my best estimate so far: Close to 30% of pages viewed on the Internet globally, will be reachable over IPv6 after June 6th 2012. I based my calculation on two sources: The lis…

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Tags: IPv6

Today marks a huge milestone in the networking industry – the official launch by the Internet Society (ISOC) of the new IPv6-based Internet helps ensure its continued growth and impact on the world economy. This new Internet has been in the works for over two decades, including the publication of the first IPv6 standard (RFC2460) by Steven Deering of Cisco and Robert Hinden of Nokia. Since then the industry has made incredible investments in tec…

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Tags: cgv6, Cisco, EANTC, Internet Society, IPv6, ISOC, light reading, Megatest, Robert Linden, Service Provider, Steven Deering, World IPv6 Launch