IPv6
Cisco Catalyst 4500-X earns USGv6 and Ready Logo Certifications!
The Global Certification Team is proud to announce that the Cisco Catalyst 4500-X has earned USGv6 and Ready Logo certifications! The 4500-X was certified on IOS XE version 15.1(1)SG. The details of the individual certifications can be found below: USGv6: https://www.iol.unh.edu/services/testing/…
End of the World Revisited: No More IPs!
We’ve posted this before, but in honor of the end of the Mayan calendar and the destruction of the world which was forecast for today we’re posting it again. In our mind, not having any more IP addresses would be a terrible event – if you’re going to build the Internet of Everything you need…
Where’s My IPv6 Prefix? Part Deux
My previous post examined how a regional Provider Independent (PI) prefix is propagated across the Internet. This post discusses the second aspect of the issue: how does Provider Assigned/Aggregateable (PA) space propagate across the Internet?…
Where’s My IPv6 Prefix? Part One
In a previous blog series about interfacing with your ISP, I mentioned tools that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have, such as looking glasses and route servers, that can be used to verify their policies. In this blog post, I want to examine some of those tools, but primarily I want to show how…
Cisco Helps NxtGn and Telarix Deliver IPv6-enabled Video Solution
We’ve talked about how the Internet is forecast to carry a million minutes of video every second in the next few years, and how Cisco’s Elastic Core solution will help the core infrastructure carry that load. But a scalable and flexible core is only one piece of the puzzle that network operators nee…
Cisco Smart Grid Team Supports Wi-SUN Alliance to Drive Interoperability
Cisco’s Smart Grid Team is excited to support the Wireless Smart Utility Network Alliance (Wi-SUN). Lionel Chocron, vice president and general manager of Cisco’s Connected Energy Networks Business, will be representing Cisco on the Wi-Sun board of directors. Cisco will be joining at the promoter lev…
Deutsche Telkom, Telefonica Move on IP NGNs From Cisco
Recent Cisco news highlights two prominent service providers – Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica – who have chosen Cisco IP Next-Generation Network solutions. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary Hrvatski Telekom – Croatia’s largest telecommunications company – is using Cisco solutions in its new TeraStream cl…
Worldwide IPv6 Usage Reaches Key Threshold
This past weekend, Google’s IPv6 Statistics reported that on November 17, 2012, user activity on their websites via native IPv6 reached 1% for the very first time. This may not sound like much at first glance, but for a system like the Internet which is slated to have 19 billion active fixed a…