By Campbell Gardiner IPv6 adoption grew globally by 150% in the past year, according to Google, and the Internet giant predicts that, at this rate, 50% of its users will be using the protocol in six years. Speaking at the 8th annual Australian IPv6 Summit, Google’s Jen Linkova says that the World IPv6 Launch event […]
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ARIN scrapes bottom of IPv4 barrel
By Campbell Gardiner The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has 2.83 /8s of IPv4 space remaining and will run out completely in either the first or second quarter of next year, it was announced today. Speaking at the 8th annual Australian IPv6 Summit, ARIN President and CEO John Curran reiterated that global depletion has […]
IPv6 central to our Internet future
By Campbell Gardiner The 8th annual Australian IPv6 Summit kicked off in fine style this morning, with global computing giants HP and Cisco positioning IPv6 front and centre of an increasingly networked and connected world. The Internet is now a mission critical piece of infrastructure for almost all businesses and organisations, a point stressed by […]
Internode bags an ANZIA; Studentnet highly commended
The New Zealand IPv6 Task Force extends its congratulations to Australian broadband provider Internode, who won the IPv6 category at last week’s ANZIA Awards in Canberra. Congratulations also go to Studentnet, who was Highly Commended in the IPv6 category. In 2011, Internode became the first broadband company in Australia to offer IPv6 as a standard […]
The Five Stages of IPv4 Exhaustion Grief
By Dean Pemberton – Task Force Technical Convenor Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) the organisation who allocates IP addresses to European organisations has announced this week that they are now allocating from their final block of IPv4 addresses. Members can still be allocated addresses, but they are only allocated a maximum of 1024. […]
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