Unless you have been asleep behind the wheel of your network, you know the IPv6 Internet will go live on June 6^th, 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 20^th from 7:30-930 am before the Lightreading Cable Next-Gen Broadband Strategies: Wideband, Wireless, PON & Beyond event. Fred Baker, Cisco Fellow and current Co-chair of the IETF IPv6 Operations Working Group, will be presenting and taking questions at the breakfast. He’ll cover how cable operators can deploy IPv6 on their network and will be available to meet with attendees after the breakfast. Register here to take advantage of this special opportunity. Read More »

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

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