Advanced Services with IPv6 Guarantees return on investment for US ISPs; Cisco CTO, Judy Estrin to Keynote At the Global IPv6 Summit March 14.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 How do we attach all US refrigerators, televisions and telephones to the Internet with security, predictable quality of service and scalability? The only answer is IPv6. In the not-too-distant future, the Internet will run out of Internet addresses. The problem is that only 4 billion numerical addresses are available for today's existing IPv4-based Internet. Demand is growing exponentially with the temptation of "always-on" options like cable modems, DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary or wireless connections. Existing wireless devices are gobbling addresses and new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. devices both wired and wireless are on the drawing boards. IPv6 provides additional advanced services enabling better security, quality of service, mobility, multicasting and network management. IPv6 is being deployed and will be demonstrated by Compaq, Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Nokia, Qwest, Teleglobe, Microsoft, Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , 3Com and Motorola at the first Global IPv6 Summit March 13-16 in Telluride, Colorado
The Town of Telluride, a Home Rule Municipality, is the county seat of San Miguel County in the southwestern portion of the State of Colorado in the United States. . Produced by Stardust star·dust n. 1. A dreamlike, romantic, or uncritical sense of well-being. 2. A cluster of stars too distant to be seen individually, resembling a dimly luminous cloud of dust. Not in scientific use. 3. .com for the IPv6 Forum, this is the first U.S. event dedicated to IPv6 technology. Until now, ISPs have been able to hide any shortage of address spaces by creating hierarchical network addressing schemes. Network address translation lets networks masquerade behind a single IP address. But long term, NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. introduces more problems than it solves. NAT is cumbersome to manage and requires renumbering of major portions of an ISPs network periodically, to conserve address space. The problem of renumbering was partly solved by the deployment of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (protocol) Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol - (DHCP) A protocol that provides a means to dynamically allocate IP addresses to computers on a local area network. The system administrator assigns a range of IP addresses to DHCP and each client computer on the LAN has its TCP/IP (DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) Software that automatically assigns temporary IP addresses to client stations logging into an IP network. It eliminates having to manually assign permanent "static" IP addresses. DHCP software runs in servers and routers. ). This fix is not a panacea however. Ironically, just as optical switching becomes feasible, NAT promotes routing instead of switching, perpetuating the growth of routing tables. NAT gets in the way of service providers trying to do accounting and billing (also a major unsolved problem for all ISPs today). IPv6 provides a 128-bit address instead of IPv4's 32-bit addresses, IPv6 allows 10 to the 38th power possible addresses on the Internet. IPv6 includes extensions that provide support for authentication (1) Verifying the integrity of a transmitted message. See message integrity, e-mail authentication and MAC. (2) Verifying the identity of a user logging into a network. , data integrity, and confidentiality. This is included as a basic element of IPv6 and will be included in all implementations. Also with an immensely larger address space and more efficient routing procedures, IPv6 creates a more scalable Internet that can support an infinite number infinite number a number so large as to be uncountable. Represented by 8, frequently obtained by 'dividing' by zero. of computers, PDAs, mobile phones, and other network-enabled devices ranging from copy machines to kitchen appliances. Auto-configuration capabilities mean that large numbers of devices can be attached dynamically without adding to administrative overhead, and sophisticated QoS features lay the groundwork for time-sensitive applications such as IP telephony The two-way transmission of voice over a packet-switched IP network, which is part of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The terms "IP telephony" and "voice over IP" (VoIP) are synonymous. and interactive multimedia. Europe and the Far East appreciate the need for IPv6 much more than the US has. That's because historically, the U.S. government and corporations have had more than their fair supply of IP addresses. In an interdependent global economy, there are very real economic risks in withholding growth of other countries because they don't have enough IP addresses. Its time for the US to wake up and realize that the rest of the world is moving to IPv6. With IPv6, Internet addressing will not be so lopsided. US ISPs looking to deploy advanced services should look to IPv6. "IPv6's challenge is that it represents the biggest network retooling project ever undertaken, and one that is absolutely necessary," explains Martin Hall, cto of Stardust.com. "IPv6 needed more than a technical argument about address space to succeed. The added services that are possible only with IPv6 networks will provide the return on investment needed for ISPs to justify the purchase of these more powerful routers." Keynote and conference Judy Estrin, cto of Cisco Systems will keynote the Global IPv6 Summit. The promise of the New Internet is communications ubiquity; our appliances, networks, electronic equipment, cars and even clothes will communicate with us and with each other. But IPv6 is required for us to realize the full potential of the global network. The Global IPv6 Summit features a comprehensive conference that provides an opportunity for CEOs, CTOs, CIOs, IP Networking Engineers, Product Planners, Technologists, Developers and Internet leaders to discuss and learn about the latest IPv6 developments and deployments around the world. An IPv6 tutorial is planned for Monday, March 13, 2000. This tutorial is for conference attendees to lay the groundwork for the following debates and discussions in the conference itself. Topics to be covered in the tutorials and conference sessions include: -- Third generation cellular, IPv6 in the wireless network, wiring the cities, home networking & I/O connectivity -- The Industry's Roadmap, how to get to IPv6 and Implementation Landscape -- Migration and transition, IPv4 and IPv6 in the same network -- "IPv6-Ready" Platforms and Routers (Compaq, Nortel, Sun, Microsoft, 3Com, Cisco) -- Internet2/Abilene, Mexico, Canada and European Trial Network -- ISP Commercial Deployment, the new wave ISP -- Evaluating IPv6, issues that one enterprise considered -- IPv6 Standards, current status of IETF standards and working groups, cellular and multicast. -- IPv6 Forum Meetings, Thursday March 16th, all conference attendees may attend. To register online for the Global IPv6 Summit, go to www.stardust.com/ipv6summit/. Interoperability Testing An IPv6 interoperability testing event sponsored by the University of New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). is being held in conjunction with this conference, see http://www.iol.unh.edu/index.html. Testing begins Tuesday, March 14th at the Mountain Village conference center next to the technical conference at the Global IPv6 Summit. Summit Sponsors The Global IPv6 Summit is sponsored by Compaq, Nortel Networks, Nokia, Qwest, Teleglobe, Microsoft, Cisco, Sun Microsystems, 3Com and Motorola. Viagenie is sponsoring the IPv6 tutorial on March 13th for registered summit attendees. About the IPv6 Forum The IPv6 Forum is a worldwide consortium of leading Internet vendors and research and education institutions dedicated to promoting the Internet Engineering Task Force's IPv6 standard as a foundation for the next-generation Internet. The consortium provides a forum for exchanging knowledge and experience, implementing interoperable IPv6 solutions, and advancing new IPv6-based applications. The IPv6 Forum's Web site is at www.ipv6forum.com. About Stardust.com Stardust.com makes sense of new Internet stuff for Internet networking professionals. The company oversees multi-vendor alliances, produces specialized technology conferences and provides comprehensive online information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. at Stardust.com -- all focused on new Internet technologies. Founded in 1995, Stardust.com is a Penton Media Penton Media, Inc. (OTC: PTON.OB), founded in 1892, is a diversified business-to-business media company. Penton Media is a mass media corporation that publishes and produces over 40 magazines, 80 trade shows, and 47 web sites. Inc. Company headquartered in Campbell, California Campbell (IPA: /ˈkæmbəl/) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, part of Silicon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area. [2] As of 2007 population estimates, Campbell's population is 39,200. with offices in Europe. The Stardust.com Web address is www.stardust.com. |
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