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Network engineers completed their first-ever test of common enterprise applications over the world’s largest IPv6 network this summer -- and the results announced today were mixed.
Experts were able to get basic office functions -- file sharing, printing and Web design, for example -- working with IPv6, but it wasn't easy. As for e-mail, well, that hasn't even been tested yet.
The 13 companies involved in the testing, including Microsoft, HP and Adobe, discovered that making the transition to IPv6 will require a significant amount of training and time for IT staffs.
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"We found that setting up office applications, especially if you had zero IPv6 knowledge, you would have a hard time learning how to set up these servers," says Erica Johnson, senior manager of software applications at the University of New Hampshire’s InterOperability Lab (UNH-IOL), which oversaw the IPv6 tests.
"There’s going to be a knowledge gap for network administrators and IPv6 developers," Johnson says. "They are going to have a hard time setting up simple servers for IPv6 networks. I definitely see an HR challenge for setting up these office networks."
Testers also discovered major gaps in the availability of IPv6-ready applications, particularly e-mail.
"What really needs to be tested still is e-mail," Johnson says. "Everyone needs e-mail, and we have not seen anything tested on [the multivendor Moonv6 test bed] yet. That doesn’t mean there aren’t e-mail implementations for IPv6, but that means they aren’t being outwardly tested yet. This is a major gap for offices to be able to complete transition to IPv6."
UNH-IOL officials also haven’t seen any proprietary applications run over Moonv6 yet.
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Comments (5)
IPv6 Applications ready?By davegreen on January 2, 2008, 3:39 pmThere are now IPv6 applications across a variety of functional areas, and the good news is that in most every category one or more of the top commercial vendors...
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what is IPv6By Anonymous on August 13, 2007, 6:09 amMaybe there was a link I missed, but a "link" to a simple straight forward description of what IPv6 is would have been helpful for those of us who just tuned in.
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A mis-stackBy Adam Gaffin on August 9, 2007, 1:00 pmWe've fixed it; thanks for pointing it out.
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"dual-stake" ?By Anonymous on August 8, 2007, 8:17 pmSurely two stakes through the heart is overkill. We only need to kill IPv4, not v6 as well. Oh, maybe you meant dual-STACK...
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Trying to scare people about IPv6By Anonymous on August 7, 2007, 9:15 amWhat was the point of this article? It comes across as trying to scare people without much data. Bottom line - everything they have tested so far worked. Caveats...
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