Cisco has announced that Free, a part of the French Iliad Group, has deployed the Cisco Carrier-Grade IPv6 Solution using Internet Protocol version 6 rapid deployment technology for more than four million Free residential broadband customers. The Iliad Group (Euronext Paris: ILD) provides telecommunications and Internet access via Free [...]
NetworkWold is reporting that Facebook began offering “experimental, non-production” support for IPv6 on June 10,2010. With more than 350 million active users. 65 million of them accessing the site through mobile devices, Facebook is planning its deployment of native IPv6 to its network backbone. Facebook says it wants to support both IPv4- and IPv6-aware clients. [...]
Trend Micro, in a December 2009 report, The Future of Threats and Threat Technologies: How the Landscape Is Changing (PDF) predicts that changes to the Internet infrastructure will widen the playing field for cybercriminals. One of the changes Trend Micro predicts it the IPv6 Malware Experimentation Stage. The anti-virus firm points out that many weaknesses [...]
YouTube. one of the most popular,biggest time-wasters and bandwidth hogs on the web is now IPv6 too. Hurricane Electric,whose IPv6 backbone. the largest in the world reports a 30x increase in IPv6 traffic originating from YouTube.
“On Thursday, midday California time, we saw a large amount of inbound IPv6 traffic, which we knew [...]
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) reports that demands for IPv6 address space is growing. According to the 10-19-09 article, Next-generation Internet defies recession on NetworkWorld, during the first nine months of 2009, ARIN received 300 requests from carriers for blocks of IPv6 address space. This compares to 250 requests received in all of [...]