BY Matthew French
May 13, 2004
The Defense Department today announced a contract has been awarded to SI International to support the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in defining and establishing the procedures for the eventual transition of DOD to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
The contract, worth almost $3 million over two years, calls for SI to provide consulting services to determine how DOD should go about its IPv6 conversion.
Following the commercial information technology industry's push to the IPv6 standard, former Defense chief information officer John Stenbit signed a policy memorandum last June that outlines DOD's transition to the new protocol by 2008. That year was chosen because most experts estimate that widespread commercial adoption will take place from 2005 to 2007. The transition won't take place for another four years, but Stenbit mandated that all technology purchased by DOD or one of the services must be IPv6 compatible starting last October.More Here
RICHARDSON, Texas --(Business Wire)-- May 10, 2004 -- IPv6 Support Results in Initial Sale to Japanese Tier-One Carrier and Growing Traction for Spectra2 in the Asian VoIP Market story continues..
Inet Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq:INTI), a leading global provider of communications software products that enable communications carriers to more strategically and profitably operate their businesses, today announced the availability of IPv6 support in its Spectra2(TM) Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) diagnostics product.
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Greenfield Networks, the emerging leader in world-class Ethernet switch silicon technology, today announced the GH6000, the industry's first edge chassis with full IPv6 support. Using the standard ATCA (Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture) chassis and built using the Packetry(TM) family of Ethernet switch silicon, the Greenfield Networks reference design platform features 128 Gigabit Ethernet ports in only 5 RU.
By Marguerite Reardon Equipment makers are zeroing in on improving performance for gear running the next-generation protocol of the Internet.
On Monday, Foundry plans to announce a hardware upgrade to switches supporting Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) to make sure they don't suffer from performance issues. The company is introducing the new capability in switching modules for its two newest high-end switches, the BigIron MG8 and NetIron 40G.
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Geoff Long, 1-May-2004 story continues..
The migration from IPv4 to IPv6 is ready for the implementation phase. That was the view at the second Asia-Pacific IPv6 Summit held in Malaysia earlier this year, where many of the key speakers talked of the push for IPv6 business applications and plans to move out of trials and into commercial IPv6 services.
By Robert Poe story continues..
The official result of the Moonv6 project that ended in March will be a white paper describing how participants got a varied bunch of IPv6 equipment, networks, functions and applications working together.
The unofficial, but more important, result may be a thriving future U.S.
By Roy Mark 03-23-04 story continues..
A permanent U.S. backbone network employing the next Internet protocol, IPv6, has cleared a second set of tests, the North American IPv6 Task Force said Monday.
LAWRENCE, Kan.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2004--On March 11, 2004, the Kansas Research and Education Network (KanREN) successfully deployed IPv6, the next generation of IP Networking technology and became the first state-wide network to do so. In doing so, KanREN continues to be in the vanguard of networking technology. story continues..