The U.S. government is leading the transition to IPv6 in the Western Hemisphere, and use of the new generation of Internet Protocols has increased sharply in the last year. And although the volume of IPv6 traffic remains small, one observer predicts that the current IPv4 protocols will become obsolete earlier than expected. “We are probably four or five years away from IPv6 being relatively ubiquitous,” said Owen DeLong, director of professional services at Hurricane Electric, […]
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Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong is quoted by GCN about IPv6
GCN’s recent article quotes Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong as it explores the question, “Will IPv6 ever have a killer app?” From the article: Owen DeLong, IPv6 evangelist for Hurricane Electric, obviously is a fan of the new protocols. He thinks doing away with NAT will be a good thing. So what does he think the killer app for IPv6 will be? “None,” he says. People don’t feel they are missing anything with IPv4 now, […]
Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong interviewed by GCN on IPv6 having a killer app
Hurricane Electric’s Owen Delong was recently interviewed by GCN on if IPv6 will ever have a killer app. From the article: The volume of IPv6 traffic, though still small, has grown steadily over the last year. Although most federal <a href=”http://gcn.com/articles/2012/09/20/agencies-to-miss-ipv6-deadline-ipv4-depletion.aspx”>agencies missed</a> the Sept. 30, 2012 deadline for enabling the new protocols on public facing Web sites, they are slowly adopting IPv6. Hurricane Electric, which bills itself as the world’s largest native IPv6 backbone, has announced […]
Hurricane Electric’s Martin Levy interviewed by GCN about IPv6
Hurricane Electric’s Martin Levy was recently interviewed for an article on IPv6 titled “Enabling IPv6, one step at a time”. From the article: Where is the United States in the adoption of IPv6? It depends on which metric you want to use. If you use the number of IP backbones that are enabled for v6, we’re getting there. It’s possible that Europe is slightly ahead of us. There has always been a perception that Japan […]
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