The IPv6 Blog

Introducing gogo6

Well it’s official, our new company gogo6 is up and running!  In a deal that took six long months to complete, gogo6 is taking over from where Hexago left off.  You’ve probably heard the saying, “it’s a marathon, not a sprint.” Well in the case of IPv6 it’s a long distance relay race, not a [...]

Posted on 30 June 2009 | 9:04 pm

IPv6, LTE and IPSO… Not So Long Term Evolution to 50 billion devices

Who would dare to predict the year the internet will reach 50 billion addressable devices? Thomas Noren, head of LTE product development at Ericsson sees (1) one day 50 billion devices shouldered by LTE.  He sees LTE as the truly global standard putting to rest the long and acrimonious rivalry between CDMA and GSM protagonists and [...]

Posted on 29 June 2009 | 4:50 pm

Mobile Mania

A few years ago we exhibited at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau.  We reasoned that the increased popularity in smart phones would drive the mobile operators to require an IP address in every handset.  This internal conclusion was supported by discussions with our Japanese customers with large mobile networks on the difficulties of [...]

Posted on 9 June 2009 | 6:28 pm

IPv6… does LTE stand for Not So Long Term Evolution ?

The Wall Street Journal reported (1) that AT&T saw wireless networks about to drown under a deluge of data. To see Youtube content uploaded form an iPhone or Slingbox rerouting a favourite television program to your smart phone gives mobile network operators the shivers. Skype over 3G in the meantime gives sleepless nights, not because [...]

Posted on 5 June 2009 | 11:59 am

IPv6… Canada about to score?

USA-Canada World Championship hockey games never fail to elicit great excitement. In the IPv6 adoption world league however, the US seems to have a convincing lead over their northern neighbour but the game is not over yet, here come the Canucks. Internet evolution, and IPv6 in particular, were the major themes at the issac (1) (ICT [...]

Posted on 19 May 2009 | 2:23 pm

How to Run IPv6 When All You Have is IPv4

Here’s a presentation on IPv6 Tunnel Brokers given at ARIN XXIII in San Antonio last month.  Other interesting presentations can also be found on this page, including one from Alain Durand on DS Lite which has been getting a lot of attention lately.  Bruce

Posted on 12 May 2009 | 12:07 pm

e-learning IPv6

If you are new to IPv6 and looking for the fundamentals dished out in a palatable form, check out the 6deploy site’s e-learning package.  6deploy is a European project, partially funded by the EC, with a mission to provide operators and service providers with IPv6 training and support for deployments.  The site is dense, as many [...]

Posted on 12 May 2009 | 11:58 am

DREN - Blazing Hot and Ready to Party

A well written paper by the folks at DREN, the Defence Research and Engineering Network under the Defence Department’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program, can be found here: DREN Success Story.  DREN, an early Hexago customer, is credited with having the first operating IPv6 network in the US government and this paper describes their real world [...]

Posted on 30 April 2009 | 6:58 pm

IPv6… a case of confirmation bias

Is the glass half full or half empty? The human reflex of selective deafness to information or arguments countering  one’s established believes lives on.  The ISOC organized lunchtime IPv6 panel (1) at IETF 74 in San Francisco   illustrates the point. The half full perception is exemplified by one write-up (2) on the event, the half-empty [...]

Posted on 30 March 2009 | 11:18 pm

The IPv6 killer app, saving the Internet

The IPv6 killer application has finally been found, making sure Internet continues to run. The general consensus at Google’s IPv6 implementors conference was that the reason to deploy IPv6 is to ensure business continuity for your Internet services. The survival of the Internet is the killer app of IPv6 as one of the participants put [...]

Posted on 23 March 2009 | 7:13 pm