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Portal offers free IPv6 news, tools

go6.net was created by Hexago, a Canadian IPv6 vendor
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan , Network World , 03/26/2007
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Network engineers looking for information about IPv6 can log onto a new portal -- http://go6.net -- that offers the latest news and knowledge about this long-awaited upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol.

The go6.net portal is operational today.

IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force a decade ago to replace IPv4, the current version of the Internet Protocol. IPv6 offers many advantages over IPv4 including built-in security, easier administration and an enhanced addressing scheme. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses, while IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses. This change allows the Internet to support an order of magnitude more uniquely addressed systems with IPv6 versus IPv4.

IPv6 is just starting to gain ground in the U.S. federal government market and among Asian telecom carriers. Federal agencies are required to support IPv6 on their backbone networks by 2008.

The new go6.net portal fancies itself the most comprehensive source of information about IPv6 on the Web. It was created by Hexago, a Canadian IPv6 vendor. Hexago’s partners on the project include VSNL International, an Indian IT services firm, and the IPv6 Forum.

"We developed the portal because we want to encourage the deployment of IPv6," says Bruce Sinclair, president and CEO of Hexago. "The go6.net portal is targeted at the early investigation into IPv6. We’re trying to provide the information organizations need, whether they are an enterprise or a government agency, to start working on network plans for transition."

The go6.net portal features a free IPv6 connectivity service called Freenet6, weekly IPv6 news, a discussion forum and a wiki-style knowledge center. Hexago is hoping network engineers will use go6.net to share free IPv6 applications and services.

"We’re starting to see more applications of IPv6. That’s what everybody is looking for," Sinclair says. "We’ve been canvassing research labs in Taiwan, Japan and Korea, and they have some very interesting real software and application services. The portal is a perfect venue to share those."

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