IPv6 Readyness and Deplyoment
Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) was designed to address the address exhuastion of IPv4. Each device on a network is assigned an unqiue IP address. These addresses are used to communicate with other devices on your network and the Internet. IPv4 offers around 4.3 billion addresses, which at the current rate, will be exhausted in early 2011. IPv6 uses 128 bit address vs 32 bit address to provide 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses.
When you access a website such as http://www.excalibur-partners.com your browser looks up the IP address of the server hosting the website. IPv4 and IPv6 are seperate networks. In order for your business to be accessible you will want to have an address on both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Currently major ISPs such as Verizon, Cox, and Comcast are readying their networks for IPv6. In the near future they will be offering both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses to their customers. In order to take advantage of the IPv6 address the devices on your network, like your router and computer, must support IPv6.
If you want immediate access to the IPv6 network you can use, provided your network supports it, a tunnel broker such as Hurricane Electric. The tunnel broker encapsulates the IPv6 packets and sends it to the IPv4 address provided by your ISP.
Sites such as Google, Facebook, and CNN are already availble on IPv6. The links below will only be accessible if you have an IPv6 address.
Contact us today to make sure your business is ready for the next generation Internet Protocol.