New Zealand IPv6 Task Force

Research firm Ovum claims that enterprise customers in the Asia Pacific region feel more “urgency” to move to IPv6 than those in other parts of the globe. That urgency has largely been driven by the recent announcement from APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) that the free pool of IPv4 addresses in the Asia Pacific […]

In a statement earlier this month the Broadband Forum and the IPv6 Forum announced their cooperative effort to empower the successful adoption of IPv6 in broadband deployments worldwide. This effort will “[create] the ecosystem that will ensure the continued success of the Internet as new applications and user expectations grow beyond the bounds of the […]

Media release – 8 June 2011 On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating […]

Media release from Northland-based wireless & fibre broadband provider Uber Group 7 June, 2011 Tomorrow marks a monumental day in the history of internet identification for every computer around the world, and Northland internet service provider Uber Group is creating a New Zealand first tomorrow, being the first to migrate to & support IPv6. On […]

REANNZ CEO Donald Clark makes the case for IPv6 in the New Zealand Computer Society’s newsline publication: “Last week, I sat next to the team from Outpost Central, a finalist at the NZ Hi-Tech awards. Outpost Central makes thousands of remote, battery powered sensors that people use for real-time water or energy use measurements, or to […]