The United States Census Bureau is one of the leading implementors of IPv6 within the U.S. government. Charles Sun, IPv6 Transition Manager for the U.S. Census Bureau, provided us with information noting: On September 28, 2012, U. S. Census Bureau was the first agency – Operating Unit (OU) within U. S. Department of Commerce to Read more…
Jun 06
Case Study: Facebook Moving To An IPv6-Only Internal Network
At the 2014 v6 World Congress in Paris, Facebook’s Paul Saab outlined how Facebook is well on the path toward moving to an IPv6-only internal network. He makes the point that why should you deal with the headache of maintaining a dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6)? Instead just move your internal network to be IPv6-only and then have Read more…
Jun 06
Facebook Moving To An IPv6-Only Internal Network
In a brilliant presentation by Facebook’s Paul Saab at the recent v6 World Congress in Paris, he outlined how Facebook is well on the path toward moving to an IPv6-only internal network. He makes the point that why should you deal with the headache of maintaining a dual-stack (IPv4/IPv6). Instead just move your internal network Read more…
Jun 06
Verizon Wireless Passes 50% IPv6 Deployment!
To all the doubters out there saying IPv6 ”will never happen”, on this World IPv6 Launchiversary let us just point you to the latest World IPv6 Launch measurements that show Verizon Wireless being the first of the top 10 largest networks to cross over the 50% IPv6 deployment mark! Over 50% IPv6! …as measured by Google, Facebook, Read more…
Jun 06
Vint Cerf: We Need To Move To The Production Version Of The Internet (IPv6)
We need to stop running the experimental version of the Internet and move to the production version of the Internet running IPv6! This was one of the key points made by Vint Cerf in a Google+ Hangout back in April 2014. We wrote about the event then, but today on World IPv6 Launchiversary it is definitely Read more…
Jun 06
Check Out The New 2-Year World IPv6 Launchiversary Infographic!
Today in celebration of the second anniversary of World IPv6 Launch, there is a new infographic available that talks about what has changed with IPv6 since June 6, 2012. You can find it at http://www.worldipv6launch.org/infographic/ or by clicking the image below. Please do share it with people to let them know how millions of people around the Read more…
Jun 06
Mexico’s AXTEL Provides Excellent IPv6 Lessons Learned And Recommendations
What are the key lessons AXTEL, Mexico’s second-largest telecommunications operator, learned in deploying IPv6 across their network? What did they do? What do they wish they’d known before they got started? In an excellent case study we’ve published from AXTEL this week, they walk through the phases they went through in planning their deployment of IPv6 Read more…
Jun 06
Happy World IPv6 Launchiversary #2 – What Will YOU Do Today To Help Get More IPv6 Deployed?
What will YOU do today to help accelerate the deployment of IPv6? Today, June 6, 2014, is the second anniversary of World IPv6 Launch and two years later the growth of IPv6 is going very well – “up and to the right” as our colleague Mat Ford writes! But as Phil Roberts wrote on the ITM blog, Read more…
Jun 05
Check Out These 7 New IPv6 Case Studies! And Watch For More Tomorrow…
Have you checked out the growing list of IPv6 case studies we are publishing? We’ve added seven more in the past few days, including the excellent example from RCS&RDS in Romania … and also some outstanding ”lessons learned” and recommendations for network operator Axtell in Mexico. Plus CERN, UCD, Forthnet and more… And tomorrow, as we Read more…
