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Akamai To Offer IPv6 To All In April

Posted by Unknown on from the lolcats-over-ipv6 dept.

netbuzz writes "Akamai says that it will offer IPv6 services to its entire customer base beginning next month – a long-awaited move that is expected to be a major boon to the adoption rate of the next-generation Internet Protocol. Akamai hoped to release its production-grade IPv6 services by the end of 2011, but the task proved more difficult than originally anticipated. Akamai has been beta testing its IPv6 services with key customers since last fall."

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  1. Re:Mocking standards? by rudy_wayne · · Score: 3, Informative

    Based on my own company checks for readiness I assume the big hold up feature parody with IP4 and IP6 security software and equipment.

    "feature parody"?

    Yes.

  2. Re:Probably still waiting for their security softw by mattventura · · Score: 4, Informative

    How would it be any better? You still would have to replace equipment and software in order to support it. Most high-end equipment uses ASICs for routing, so you wouldn't be able to just do software upgrades to support it.

  3. Re:Werent we supposed 2 run out of ips a while bac by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    IANA, the top level of organizations which handle the allocation of IP addresses, has run out of IPv4 addresses more than a year ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orJpEJuZick

    The regional registries still have addresses and are going through them at different rates, so they'll run out at different points in the future.

    RIPE (Europe) is down to about 40 million addresses, including the last 16 million which will be assigned under a different, more stringent policy: http://www.ripe.net/internet-coordination/ipv4-exhaustion/ipv4-available-pool-graph

    APNIC (Asia) is already on the last /8 block: http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv4-exhaustion/graphical-information

    ARIN (North America): http://www.compusophia.com/en/ipaddrstat/ipv4_arin_pool.html

    LACNIC (South America): http://www.lacnic.net/en/registro/espacio-disponible-ipv4.html

    AfriNIC (Africa):
    http://www.compusophia.com/en/ipaddrstat/ipv4_afrinic_pool.html

    When those are depleted, it's going to be NAT all the way down.