Showing posts with label ipv6 gateway. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 17, 2013

Implementing IPv6 in a hosted virtual lab

Did you know that the IPv6 standard was drafted more than 14 years ago, in Dec 1998? Adoption grew very slowly since then, but with today's ongoing exhaustion of IPv4 addresses IPv6 is gaining momentum:
  • Almost all important ISPs (Internet Service Providers) and big companies that make business on the Internet already use and support IPv6.
  • More an more other companies and institutions look into implementing IPv6 for their Internet-facing services (mainly public web sites).
  • All modern Operating Systems have built-in support for IPv6. Many of them (inlcuding Windows 7/8) have it enabled by default.
IPv6 is inescapable. It's here. It's here to stay. It matters. Are you ready?

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