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What is World IPv6 Day and why it matters |
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Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Anthony Pell
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While you’ve been asleep in your beds with visions of iPad 2s dancing in your heads, network administrators have been wide awake getting ready for World IPv6 Day. And, what’s that?
As the The Internet Society explained, “The goal of the Test Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry - Internet service providers [ISP], hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies - to prepare their services for IPv6 [Internet Protocol version 6) o ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.”
Well, they’ve been motivated all right. Facebook, Google, and Yahoo! and important content delivery network (CDN) providers, including Akamai and Limelight Network will be offering IPv6 networking as well as the usual IPv6 on June 8, 2011.
Read this full article at ZDNet Blogs
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