IPv6 World Day
8th June 2011
On 8 June, 2011,
top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including
Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks joined together
with more than 1000 other participating websites in World IPv6 Day for
a successful global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. By
providing a coordinated 24-hour “test flight”, the event helped
demonstrate that major websites around the world are well-positioned
for the move to a global IPv6-enabled Internet, enabling its continued
exponential growth.
IPv6 World Day URL:
http://www.worldipv6day.org/
Cisco predicts
internet device boom
1st June 2011
When IPv4 was
created in the 1970s, it was thought that its pool of 4.3 billion
addresses would be enough to go around. The rise in the number of
mobile devices, laptops and connected machines has helped exhaust that
stock.
In February, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority handed out the
last batch of these addresses. Industry experts believe they could be
all used up as early as August. The solution is IPv6. There are
trillions of these addresses but persuading companies to move to IPv6
has been a slow process.
"We are running out of IPv4 addresses and the adoption of IPv6 is going
to be front and centre of everything for the next several years," Suraj
Shetty, Cisco vice president for global marketing, told BBC News. "As
we adopt more internet-enabled devices in the home, addresses for each
item are quickly running out. The implication for vendors like Cisco is
that we have to come up with a platform that can help scale the
internet to handle a lot of the traffic and to do it smartly. If you
want to keep adding billions and billions of devices, the only answer
is IPv6."
BBC Technology URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13613536
Address allocation
kicks off IPv4 endgame
1st February 2011
The Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority has assigned two large blocks of IPv4
addresses to the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre, activating a
rule under which the agency will give out the last of its IPv4
addresses. The rule states that when only five large blocks of IP
addresses remain, one will be handed out to each of the world's five
regional Internet registries. With the latest allocation to APNIC, the
number of remaining IP address blocks is down to five.
IPv6 Portal URL: http://www.ipv6tf.org/index.php?page=news/newsroom&id=7027&lan=en
Network World URL: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020111-address-allocation-kicks-off-ipv4.html?hpg1=bn
