News

• Telstra offers IPv6 to business customers

  By Hafizah Osman | 05 March, 2012 16:46

  Telstra has made Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) connectivity available to more of its business, enterprise and government customers.

• IPv6: Dual-stack strategy starts at the perimeter

  By Scott Hogg | 14 February, 2012 03:47

  We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One alternative is to use continue to use IPv4 and expect to use multiple layers of network address translation (NAT) for many years to come. The other alternative is to start to use IPv6, however, the majority of enterprise organizations and content providers have not embraced the protocol.

• Internode first to take IPv6 plunge

  By Spandas Lui | 18 January, 2012 11:55

  All new customers of the South Australia-based ISP, Internode, will be automatically assigned IPv6 addresses

• Telstra moves into IPv6 with enterprise, government and wholesale customers

  By Spandas Lui | 05 September, 2011 16:43

  Telstra is offering IPv6 services to enterprise, Government and wholesale customers.

• Most of world still resisting IPv6 adoption

  By Spandas Lui | 14 July, 2011 11:32

  It appears those outside of the Asia-Pacific region are still wary of IPv6, according to a new report from analyst firm, Ovum.

• Brocade fulfills Army base's IPv6 marching orders

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 15 June, 2011 07:58

  Brocade gear is powering a cutting-edge network that supports IPv6, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet for the U.S. Army at Fort Carson in Colorado.

• Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 June, 2011 07:07

  One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites.

• World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 09 June, 2011 00:06

  The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the start of World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999.

• Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 08 June, 2011 05:03

  A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6.

• WhiteGold Solutions adds BlueCat Networks

  By ARN Staff | 25 March, 2011 11:55

  WhiteGold Solutions adds BlueCat Networks

• Why you shouldn't worry so much about IPv6

  By Bruce Gain | 05 February, 2011 05:42

  A critical juncture in history arrived this week as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned the last IPv4 addresses to the five regions of the world's Regional Internet Registries.

• Internode touts IPv6-ready status

  By ARN Staff | 02 February, 2011 13:20

  SA-based ISP will be gradually moving its national trial IPv6 services to full production this year.

• No more IPv4 addresses

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 02 February, 2011 02:35

  The Internet has run out of IPv4 address space.

• Internode completes 12 months of IPv6 trial

  By ARN Staff | 04 November, 2010 12:52

  It’s been a year since South Australia-based, ISP, Internode, began its IPv6 trial on customers; now it's urging businesses to take the impending IPv4 address exhaustion seriously.

• Run on IPv4 addresses could exhaust supply by December

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 June, 2010 01:52

  The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses could be depleted as early as December due to unprecedented levels of broadband and wireless adoption in the Asia Pacific region, experts say.