February 24, 2015 archive

Feb 24

Today: Interop Radio – The Real Scoop on IPv6

Interop RadioToday seems to be the day for people to do webinars/podcasts on the topics we care about… in about 35 minutes at 3:00pm US Eastern, an episode of “Interop Radio” will focus on IPv6!

Hosted on BlogTalkRadio, this is the kind of show that anyone can call in to using the phone number listed on the episode page.  From that page, the abstract is:

Everyone knows we’ve run out of network addresses. That’s old news. So why don’t we hear about the solutions any more? Is it a thoroughly solved problem or have we all just decided to ignore it until the problem goes away (or the Internet falls over and dies)?

In this episode of Interop Radio we’ll give you the answers and help you understand what those answers mean for your network. To do that we have an expert on board to talk about the technologies and practices that will make a difference for you and your organization.

Brandon Ross, Chief Network Architect and CEO at Network Utility Force, is a network architect and entrepreneur with years of experience building, operating and managing large scale service provider networks. He’s interested in helping telecommunications companies with the best network engineering team and network in the industry via scalable and stable architectures.

The episode records live in about 35 minutes – and then presumably will be available for later listening if you aren’t able to hear it live.

It’s great to see this kind of discussion happening out there – and with very real IPv6 deployment happening around the world, the time is NOW for you to be understanding how your networks and content can be available over IPv6!

We look forward to hearing this show and for seeing even more IPv6 deployment happen!  If you want to get started with IPv6, please visit our Start Here page to find resources tailored to your role or type of organization!

Feb 24

T-Mobile USA Crosses 50% IPv6 Deployment, Verizon Wireless 65%, AT&T 38%

Great news for IPv6 deployment! Our colleague Mat Ford just wrote about the February 2015 World IPv6 Launch measurements and noted that T-Mobile USA crossed over the 50% IPv6 deployment mark!

T-Mobile USA IPv6 deployment

They join fellow North American wireless carrier Verizon Wireless who has been in the “over 50% IPv6″ club for a while now and this month is right at the 65% mark (64.57% if you want to be precise):

Verizon Wireless IPv6 deployment

Looking at the measurements for February 2015, you can see other great numbers:  XS4ALL in the Netherlands is now at almost 60%, Telenet grew to 56%, Comcast is nearing 36%, AT&T has jumped to 38%, and Time Warner Cable continues on a nice trend line at 14%.

World IPv6 Launch measurementsTo better understand these measurements, you can scroll to the bottom of the measurements page and see more about how the partners contribute their data to the measurements project.  Current partners include: Akamai, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Yahoo!

What these measurements show very clearly is that IPv6 deployment is happening right now – and if you haven’t been paying attention, you really need to be looking at what you can do to ensure your networks and content will work with the IPv6-enabled Internet.  Please visit our Start Here page to find resources that will help you begin!

 

Feb 24

Ziff Davis Webinar Today: DNSSEC – Do You Need DNS Security Now?

Webinar about DNSSECVia Twitter today, I learned that technology journalist Sean Kerner will be speaking in a webinar about DNSSEC at 1:00pm US Eastern today (in about 65 minutes).  If you are interested, more information can be found at:

http://www.eseminarslive.com/c/a/security/GeoTrust-021715/

I’ll be honest and say I don’t know what precisely will be covered in this session but back in the earlier days of DNSSEC deployment (~2010) Sean wrote a number of pieces on the topic and I’ve generally appreciated the coverage he gives to security topics. The abstract sounds useful:

Ever since the Kaminksy DNS security disclosure back in 2008 DNSsec (DNS Security extensions) have been hailed as the key tool in the fight to secure domains. Despite this recognition, few have actually implemented it. What should you do? How does SSL complement or compete with DNSsec to provide security for your domain?

We’ll have to see what he says.

If you are interested in deploying DNSSEC – or simply learning more about it – I would encourage you to visit our Start Here page where you can find DNSSEC resources tailored to your role or type of organization.

If you want to understand the current state of DNSSEC deployment, you may want to view our DNSSEC Deployment Maps or check out some of the different DNSSEC statistics sites that are out there.

And if you want to learn more about how DNSSEC can work with SSL/TLS, please do visit our information about the DANE protocol.

Let’s get the word out there and get more DNSSEC and DANE deployed!