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Vendors start the IPv6 hard sell
DURING TIMES OF CHANGE, IT vendors are quick on the draw with products and services. The world's move to IPv6 is no exception, with pound signs in the eyes of technology executives everywhere.
One of these companies is Gogo6, which as a company that only offers technology to do with IPv6 must have been waiting for this moment for quite some time. It's now offering the "world's first v6 adapter", a plug-n-play device that is designed to provide IPv6.
The Gogo CPE version 1.0 is designed to work with your home networking equipment rather than replace it. You can run a dual-stack home network, which means that you can deploy IPv6 using IPv4 or IPv4 using IPv6.
Expect a blizzard of publicity concerning the IPv6 move in the future, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced last week that it had distributed the last batch of the remaining IPv4 addresses.
Even though it is predicted that IPv4 could be operating 10 years from now, firms like Google have already been working for quite some time in preparation. With knowledge that IPv6 is essential for Internet expansion, Google has already made its website IPv6 compatible.
A changeover can be a long and time consuming process, but right now it is not worth panicking about. However, to make the whole job easier in the long term, it might be worth getting started sooner, rather than later. At least, companies like Gogo6 are certainly hoping you'll see it that way. µ
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You may think 10 years but you cannot connect to IPv6 with IPv4 without silly kludges, and as new sites and services will pop up and move away from the old system you'll find yourself more and more lonely and isolated if you think you can put it off 10 years.
But you can change at an easy pace though, but 2 or 3 years should have you well into IPv6 I would think.
And note that many devices are actually already compliant and only need a software/firmware update.
Considering the rate of tech and the changes the people who designed the original did an amazing job to last as long as it has without assigning more addresses. Who would think it would be so popular today? They get my kudos.
Nowadays it's only about how much money can I make.