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• Comcast to IPv6-enable commercial broadband service

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 12 April, 2013 13:04

  Comcast plans to expand its IPv6-based offerings for business customers with the launch of commercial broadband and Metro Ethernet services that support the next-gen Internet Protocol later this year.

• Recent signals point to escalating jitters for IPv4 market

  By Greg Nachtwey | 04 March, 2013 14:18

  Publications discussing the transition to the IPv6 addressing system have revealed mounting anxiety regarding the economics and service impact of the global shortage of IPv4 addresses.

• New IPv6 training video released

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 31 January, 2013 15:39

  Seeing an uptick in demand for IPv6-trained engineers in Europe, IT video training firm CBT Nuggets is offering a new 21-hour class aimed at teaching the basics of the next-gen Internet protocol.

• NEC rolls out OpenFlow for Microsoft Hyper-V

  By Jim Duffy | 22 January, 2013 18:57

  NEC this week unveiled a virtual switch for Microsoft's Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V hypervisor which is designed to bring OpenFlow-based software-defined networking and network virtualization to those Microsoft environments.

• Cisco uses LISP to articulate programmability

  By Jim Duffy | 20 December, 2012 21:14

  Network virtualization is one of the hotter trends in the industry today, and when Cisco speaks to it you hear a distinct LISP.

• In Pictures: Top 25 network and IT industry stories of 2012

  By Bob Brown | 12 December, 2012 08:33

  The Cloud, tablets, software-defined networking, IPv6 and 4G wireless reshape the enterprise IT landscape in 2012

• 10 tips for implementing IPS securely

  By Phil Lerner, VP technology, Stonesoft Americas | 26 November, 2012 19:00

  An intrusion prevention system (IPS) includes all the features of an intrusion detection system but also has the ability to act upon malicious traffic. Since the IPS usually sits in line with network traffic it can shut down attacks, typically by blocking access from the attacker or blocking access to the target. In some cases, the IPS can talk to the firewall to block an attack.

• U.S. government honored for pioneering work in IPv6

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 14 November, 2012 16:42

  The IPv6 Forum on Tuesday presented a special award to four U.S. government officials for their pioneering work in promoting IPv6, an emerging upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• IPv6: Taking the right steps

  By ARN Staff | 27 May, 2009 15:55

  Although he acknowledges businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru, Scott Hogg, says that doesn’t mean IT executives can ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present.

• Hackers target IPv6

  By Susan Perschke | 28 November, 2011 22:32

  If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

• Four ways IPv6 will save the Internet

  By Tony Bradley | 26 July, 2010 01:58

  The world is almost out of IP addresses--or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand the pool of available IP addresses while also providing a few other benefits.

• Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01

  The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Will 2010 be the year of IPv6?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 17 December, 2009 09:13

  Will IPv6 finally arrive stateside in 2010? That's the question U.S. ISPs and network equipment vendors are asking themselves after seeing a rise in IPv6 activity during the last six months of 2009.

• Invisible IPv6 traffic poses serious network threat

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 13 July, 2009 16:53

  IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- isn't keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should.

• What's driving this university to IPv6? Going green

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 July, 2009 07:07

  Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus.

• IPv6 security guru fields questions

  By Brad Reed | 07 May, 2009 08:14

  Although he acknowledges that businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru Scott Hogg says that doesn't mean IT executives can ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present. After all, he notes, operating systems such as Microsoft Vista and Linux are already IPv6 capable and thus any networks that use them might be handling IPv6 traffic without their operators' knowledge.

• The Internet sky really is falling

  By Johna Till Johnson | 07 May, 2009 08:30

  Many folks are familiar with the modeling we've done over the past few years highlighting the fact that Internet demand is outstripping capacity, specifically access capacity. The findings were, to put it mildly, controversial: We've been called everything from carrier shills to nut-jobs. (No, the research wasn't sponsored. And we never claimed your fillings were receiving extraterrestrial radio signals).