Akamai To Offer IPv6 To All In April

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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Probably still waiting for their security software

[BagOBones]

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

I know many of our security appliances have been able to route IP6 for a long time, but few of them could filter or manage the traffic with any sort of detail close to that of IP4 since the features had not been ported.

Mocking standards?

[DragonWriter]

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"?

Re:Mocking standards?

[rudy_wayne]

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.

Re:Probably still waiting for their security softw

[mattventura]

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.

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Yes, we ran out

[SuperKendall]

We actually ran out of IP's last year, there's been one guy in Virginia running a NAT for the whole U.S. with the last one. But it's on an old lynxsys, he'd really like to free up the plug to vacuum and so we have to all get over to ipv6 pretty soon so he can power it down.

Re:Werent we supposed 2 run out of ips a while bac

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Werent we supposed 2 run out of ips a while bac

[jmauro]

Or buy them on the secondary market. The current price is around $12 per IP.

So when will Slashdot be on IPv6?

[Skapare]

So when will Slashdot be on IPv6? Inquiring minds and nefarious hackers want to know.