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If you're an old-school iPhone user who still has one of AT&T's unlimited data plans, be prepared for a rude awakening.

Riverbed today announced the release of updates to its Steelhead network performance products as well as its Granite product line, which is based on the edge virtual server infrastructure approach that Riverbed is pushing. Whereas the former aims to boost network performance for the customers that are concerned about application delivery, the latter may attract more attention from the infrastructure management industry.

In yet another sign that growing revenues are reshaping the vendor outlook in the network management sector, Gartner recently named vendor Silver Peak one of the leaders in its magic quadrant for the WAN optimization market.

Gibbs follows up on last week's column on the Lantronix xPrintServer and looks at Twine, a wireless sensor device that got funded on Kickstarter.

Silicon Valley-based airline Virgin America named one its jets after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. But the jet isn't named "Steve Jobs."

Back when I was young printing was complicated. Printer drivers were a nightmare of options and standards were rare. Now there are all sorts of standards for printing but the nightmare still continues. Even printers that sell for $50 have multiple drivers, often support various printing protocols, have multiple driver updates, and then there is the printer installation software.

WAN optimization is shaping up to be one of the hottest areas of the network equipment market, prompting industry experts to predict high-profile acquisitions and vendor shakeups in the near future.

AT&T has announced new smartphone and tablet data plans that start at higher prices than current plans but also offer more data for the buck. However, if customers are satisfied with what they've got, they can stick with it.

It has been 26 years to the day when the computing world was introduced to its first virus: The Brain.

ShoreTel is in the news again with two separate announcements: It has extended virtualization support to the enterprise contact center and it has partnered with Ruckus Wireless to deliver a "Mobile Unified Communications Starter Kit" targeting SMBs.

Today Cloudflare is launching an Automatic IPv6 Gateway. To enable it, sign up for CloudFlare or login to your account and visit your CloudFlare Settings page.

CloudFlare.com > My websites > Settings (pull down menu) > CloudFlare settings

You can choose two options: (FULL) which will enable IPv6 on all subdomains that are CloudFlare Enabled, or (SAFE) which will automatically create specific IPv6-only subdomains (e.g., www.ipv6.yoursite.com). You do not need to change any of your DNS settings. After it is up and running, you can test your IPv6 compatibility and get a badge for your site.

Cloudflare is providing the Automatic IPv6 Gateway for free to all CloudFlare users.

Donderdag 17 november worden voor de derde keer de IPv6 Awards uitgereikt aan de beste Nederlandse implementaties. Als IPv6 Task Force roepen wij bedrijven, overheden, onderwijsinstellingen en ook particulieren op zich aan te melden voor de IPv6 awards 2011. Heeft u een toepassing op het gebied van IPv6 geïmplementeerd? Schrijf uzelf of een organisatie die volgens u genomineerd moet worden dan voor 26 oktober in voor de IPv6 Awards 2011 en maak kans op een mooie prijs!

Prijzen per categorie:
• Profit: €13.500,-
• Non-profit: Een week senior consultancy, vrij opneembaar / €13.500,-
• IPv6 personality: winnaar van deze categorie ontvangt een laptop met gratis gebruik van één jaar mobiel internet en KPN Hotspots

Bij het selecteren van de winnaars zal de jury letten op motivatie, relevantie, toewijding, implementatie en impact. De prijzen zijn beschikbaar gesteld door: SURFnet, KPN, Stichting NLnet, Stratix en SIDN,

De uitreiking van de awards zal plaatsvinden op donderdag 17 november tijdens het ECP-EPN jaarcongres in het Fortis Circus theater in Scheveningen. Voor meer informatie over de IPv6 awards of om direct in te schrijven: http://www.ipv6-taskforce.nl/awards/ .

Noodzakelijke overstap naar IPv6

Door een alsmaar grootschaliger gebruik van het internet raken de huidige adresreeksen op hetinternet (IPv4) op. Om ervoor te zorgen dat dit niet tot problemen leidt is er een nieuw adressysteem, genaamd IPv6, bedacht. Het is belangrijk dat Nederlandse bedrijven, internet service providers, overheden, onderwijsinstellingen en ook particulieren gaan beseffen dat de overstap naar dit nieuwe adressysteem noodzakelijk is en dat zij tijdig maatregelen kunnen en moeten nemen om de overstap naar IPv6 mogelijk te maken (en de kosten onder controle te houden). Goede implementaties van IPv6 kunnen volgens de IPv6 Task Force een voorbeeldfunctie hebben.

Cloudflare will be rolling out IPv6 support soon. We can’t say when but we can say that they have an validation check available to check if your website supports IPv6.

You can check if your site has IPv6 capabilitys on http://cloudflare.ipv6-test.com

Oh and you can get a cool banner to put on your website:

Den Haag – 6 september 2011 – De Stichting IPv6 Nederland publiceert deze week een white paper over de IPv6-aspecten van applicatiesoftware. Het document behandelt in detail de afhankelijkheden van de IP-versie die in programmacode kunnen voorkomen en de risico’s in het netwerkgebruik die daarmee gepaard gaan. Aan de hand van een classificatie van de risico’s kunnen managers een plan van aanpak opstellen voor inspectie en aanpassing van bestaande software.

Het document ‘IP Version Dependency in Application Software – Preparing source code for IPv6’ is door de Stichting IPv6 Nederland (Stipv6) geschreven in samenwerking met de Software Improvement Group (SIG). Na onderzoek van 132 systemen concludeerde SIG in 2010 dat 1 op de 12 recent gebouwde informatie systemen problemen zouden kunnen ondervinden bij de omschakeling van IPv4 naar IPv6.

Het white paper van Stichting IPv6 gaat in detail in op de risico’s en geeft handvatten om ze op te zoeken, te identificeren en op te lossen. Software is toekomstvast als het probleemloos met zowel IPv4 als IPv6 kan omgaan.
IPv6 is het nieuwe internetprotocol dat het komende IP-adrestekort oplost dat met IPv4 ontstaat. Voor IPv6 moeten netwerken, werkstations en servers aangepast worden. Ook zakelijke software (zowel maatwerk alsmede pakketoplossingen zoals ERP en CRM) moeten worden gecontroleerd en mogelijk aangepast. Veel IT-managers zijn zich hiervan niet bewust en veronderstellen dat programma’s geen specifieke afhankelijkheden van de IP-versie hebben. Het onderzoek van SIG toont echter aan dat de kans hierop aanwezig is. Het Stipv6 white paper ‘IP Version Dependency in Application Software – Preparing source code for IPv6’ is kosteloos te downloaden op www.stipv6.nl.

China made its mark with its implementation of IPv6 for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. London needs to follow suit — for the good of its games and to help create an IPv6-ready infrastructure in the capital, says Axel Pawlik.

Earlier this summer, the Wimbledon quarter-finals triggered a 70-percent surge in UK internet traffic as the public watched matches online. The online viewing figures in August 2012 are expected to dwarf that Wimbledon surge, as millions around the world log on to watch the London Olympics.

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The previous two columns in this series—The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011—discussed the Cloud and Recreational Hacking and what they mean for corporate counsel. This column looks at the third of the Horsemen: IPv6, the new protocol for the Internet that is rolling out over the next few months.

The Internet—originally known as ARPANET, among other configurations—was developed by geniuses like Jon Postel, Vint Cerf, Lawrence Roberts, and others who made the technology advances that laid the groundwork and the backbone for the worldwide web as we know it today. I was honored to have met Postel and Cerf in the 1990s when I participated in hearings before the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. The debates then centered on access and growth. One topic that was never discussed (or if it was, only in passing) was whether the Internet would ever run out of numbers – the unique identifiers known as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. After all, the key to the Internet’s design was that it was scalable and could grow without foreseeable limitations. At least that was the plan.

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Network operator Entanet UK has warned that many broadband ISPs could be missing a "competitive opportunity" by adopting a risky "wait and see" approach to IPv6 adoption.

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Although he acknowledges businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru, Scott Hogg, says that doesnt mean IT executives can ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present.

Limelight Networks, Inc. introduced the industry's first content delivery service with Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support