Slides: Impact of IPv6 on Telecommunications Applications

At the recent Emerging Communications (eComm) Confernce 2011 I spoke about “How IPv6 Will Kill Telecom – And What We Need To Do About It“. It wasn’t all about applications – I also got into the impact of IPv6 on telecom protocols – but still I thought that some of you may find …

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What’s Wrong With This IPv4 Application?

See any problem with entering IPv6 addresses using this user interface? Probably not going to work to well, is it? 🙂

Iphone ipv4

This is just the network config interface of an IP phone I had on my desk. While some of you from the VoIP …

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How IPv6 Will Kill Telecom – And What We Need To Do About It


How badly will IPv6 screw up telecommunications? Where are the areas of telecom that will see the greatest impact? And what can be done to fix it?

How badly will IPv6 screw up telecommunications? Where are the areas of telecom that will see the greatest impact? And what can be done to fix it?

With the recent buzz around World IPv6 Day and the exhaustion of top-level IPv4 address allocations, organizations are starting to seriously look at exactly what is involved with migrating to IPv6… and asking questions about what this means for all their VoIP and Unified Communications systems. Given that the reality is that a “IPv6-only” world is a distant future, questions are particularly being asked around how those telecommunications systems will work during the transition period from IPv4 to IPv6.

In this session, Voxeo’s Dan York will explore where IPv6 and telecom play nice together and where there are serious minefields that may restrict telecom from working over IPv6

In this session, Voxeo’s Dan York will explore where IPv6 and telecom play nice together and where there are serious minefields that may restrict telecom from working over IPv6

How IPv6 Will Kill Telecom – And What We Need To Do About It


How badly will IPv6 screw up telecommunications? Where are the areas of telecom that will see the greatest impact? And what can be done to fix it?

How badly will IPv6 screw up telecommunications? Where are the areas of telecom that will see the greatest impact? And what can be done to fix it?

With the recent buzz around World IPv6 Day and the exhaustion of top-level IPv4 address allocations, organizations are starting to seriously look at exactly what is involved with migrating to IPv6… and asking questions about what this means for all their VoIP and Unified Communications systems. Given that the reality is that a “IPv6-only” world is a distant future, questions are particularly being asked around how those telecommunications systems will work during the transition period from IPv4 to IPv6.

In this session, Voxeo’s Dan York will explore where IPv6 and telecom play nice together and where there are serious minefields that may restrict telecom from working over IPv6

In this session, Voxeo’s Dan York will explore where IPv6 and telecom play nice together and where there are serious minefields that may restrict telecom from working over IPv6

Demonstrating IPv6 User Interface Issues – with the web site theme!

Rather ironically, I have found that the WordPress theme I’ve been initially using for this site demonstrates perfectly the kind of user interface display issues that will bite so many developers with IPv6. Here’s a screenshot of me visiting the site from an IPv6 site (part of the address covered for security purposes):

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Migrating Apps to IPv6 Now Available For Purchase at O’Reilly.com

I’m very pleased to announce that “Migrating Applications to IPv6” is now available for purchase as an eBook from O’Reilly Books:

Migrating Applications to IPv6 - O Reilly Media

The book is available in the formats of ePub, Mobi and PDF …

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Calipso – A Content Management System (CMS) Written in Node.js

Calipsologo

As a writer of online content, I’m always looking at what is new in the world of content management systems (CMSs), and I was intrigued to see that there is a new CMS out based on Node.js called Calipso (and …

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Code.DanYork.com Now Available Over IPv6 as of World IPv6 Day

Ipv6day 1Just in time for World IPv6 Day, I’m pleased to note that Code.DanYork.com is now available over IPv6!

This site runs on WordPress and while WordPress itself works fine with IPv6, the trick was to find a web hosting provider that …

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China Passes 900 Million Cell Phone Users! (Featured Blog)

Fascinating stats out of an article at TheNextWeb this week: China has become the first country to reach the 900 million mobile phone user milestone after amassing about 11 million mobile phone users in April alone, according to a report by the country…

Skype Issues Official Statement About the End of Skype for Asterisk (Featured Blog)

Before writing my story yesterday about Skype killing off Skype For Asterisk, I had reached out to Skype’s PR agency to see if there was any statement from Skype. There wasn’t at the time, but today they sent over this statement from Jennifer Caukin, a…