IPv6

February 26, 2013

GOVERNMENT

ASR 9000 Family earns IPv6 Certifications!

The Global Certification Team is proud to announce that the Cisco Aggregate Services Routers (ASR) 9000 series have completed USGv6 Certification on software version 4.2.1 or later, with USGv6 SMU....

February 20, 2013

NETWORKING

How to Find and Measure IPv6 Traffic on Your Network

My last post was all about finding IPv6 prefixes on the IPv6 Internet. I think the next natural question is “What about IPv6 traffic?” or more specifically, “What about IPv6 traffic on my network?” In this post, I’ll talk about some network tools, or instrumentation, that can be used to find and measure IPv6 traffic […]

February 11, 2013

SECURITY

Cisco Live London 2013: IPv6 Security Lab Recap

This post summarizes, on behalf of the instructors of the course, the experiences of delivering the IPv6 Security Lab session recently at Cisco Live London 2013.

February 4, 2013

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

Get Moving to V6 World Congress 2013

By Gina Nienaber, Marketing Manager, Service Provider (SP) Marketing Routing and Switching The theme of this year’s V6 World Congress, happening in Paris, March 19-22, is “Going Mobile.” With the advent of the Internet of Everything and the proliferation of mobile devices well underway, there will be a lot to talk about. And this year, […]

January 25, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Catalyst 3560 and 3750 achieve USGv6 and Ready Logo Certifications!

1 min read

The Global Certification Team is proud to announce that the Cisco Catalyst 3560 and 3750 have earned USGv6 and Ready Logo certifications!  Specifically, the Catalyst 3560C, 3560X, 3560E, 3560V2 and the Catalyst 3750X, 3750E, 3750V2 were certified on IOS 15.0(2)SE or later.  The details of the individual certifications can be found below: USGv6: https://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/usgv6tested.php Ready Logo 3560: https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/02-C-000895/ […]

January 17, 2013

GOVERNMENT

Cisco Catalyst 4500-X earns USGv6 and Ready Logo Certifications!

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The Global Certification Team is proud to announce that the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X has earned USGv6 and Ready Logo certifications!  The 4500-X was certified on IOS XE version 15.1(1)SG.  The details of the individual certifications can be found below: USGv6: https://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/ipv6/usgv6tested.php Ready Logo: https://www.ipv6ready.org/db/index.php/public/logo/02-C-000884/ The fixed-aggregation Cisco Catalyst 4500-X Series Switches deliver best-in-class scalability, simplified network virtualization, and […]

December 21, 2012

SP360: SERVICE PROVIDER

End of the World Revisited: No More IPs!

1 min read

We’ve posted this before, but in honor of the end of the Mayan calendar and the destruction of the world which was forecast for today we’re posting it again. In our mind, not having any more IP addresses would be a terrible event –  if you’re going to build the Internet of Everything you need […]

December 17, 2012

NETWORKING

Where’s My IPv6 Prefix? Part Deux

4 min read

My previous post examined how a regional Provider Independent (PI) prefix is propagated across the Internet.  This post discusses the second aspect of the issue: how does Provider Assigned/Aggregateable (PA) space propagate across the Internet?

December 13, 2012

NETWORKING

Where’s My IPv6 Prefix? Part One

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In a previous blog series about interfacing with your ISP, I mentioned tools that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have, such as looking glasses and route servers, that can be used to verify their policies.  In this blog post, I want to examine some of those tools, but primarily I want to show how prefixes are […]