During our customer reception for the V6 World Congress 2012 we had an opportunity to discuss the impact and opportunity of IPv6 on the industry. Ragnar Anfinsen, Senior Architect CPE of Norway’s Altibox AS was kind enough to share his thoughts with us.

Although they’ve got it running in the lab and their core network, the next step will be to enable IPv6 Read More »

Tags: 6rd, Altibox, cgv6, Cisco, IPv6, NAT64, Service Provider, SP360

Despite the “buzz” around IPv6 right now for many customers it’s not easy to actually test drive an IPv6 connection. When we got the opportunity to sponsor the Wi-Fi customer access at the 2012 v6 World Congress, we jumped at it. It became an opportunity to showcase both the simplicity and effectiveness of the Cisco Carrier Grade IPv6 (CGv6) solution. The CGv6 solution is the industry’s only IPv6 transition solution that has been performance tested and validated by a third party, in our case by EANTC.

Wi-Fi is a topic of particular interest to mobile operators Read More »

Tags: 6rd, Alain Fiocco, ASR1000, cgv6, Cisco, Cloud Intelligent Networks, Dual Stack, EANTC, IPv6, mobile vni, NAT64, Service Provider, SP Wi-Fi, visual networking index

As promised, here are the results for our “IPv6 – Are You Ready” video quiz which we published on January 19^th, 2012.

Click on the link above if you haven’t watched the video.

Answers: Read More »

Tags: 6rd, cgv6, IPv6, Service Provider, SP360, v6 world congress, World IPv6 Day

Although we released this some time ago, not long before the run out of IPv4 addresses we thought we’d repost it again given the announcement earlier in the week of the launch date for the IPv6 Internet. The great news is with the IPv6 Internet happening on June 6, 2012 there is no need to fight your colleagues for IP addresses or hide under your desk. Provided, of course, that your network architect or IT Read More »

Tags: 6rd, cgv6, IPv6, Service Provider, v6 world congress, World IPv6 Day

At Cisco, we’ve talked many times before about the exhaustion of IPv4 address space and the need for the industry to adopt IPv6 to support the explosion in the number of people, devices, and web services and enable the continuing growth of the Internet. As you can read in the announcement on our corporate blog, today Cisco joined with other leading industry participants such as AT&T, Google, Facebook, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable to be part of the World IPv6 Launch. This means that by June 6, 2012 all participants will permanently enable IPv6 on their networks and websites.

Since deployment of IPv6 requires an industry-wide response we recently teamed with Excentis to participate in Read More »

Tags: 6rd, cgv6, EuroDOCSIS, Excentis, interop, IPv6, Service Provider, v6 world congress, World IPv6 Day