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Previous newsletters have discussed the role of application delivery controllers (ADCs) as well as the key functionality they provide. This newsletter will quantify the difference between the value of a server load balancer (SLB) and the value of an ADC.

Today we are talking to Wouter Schoot. Wouter is a System & Support Engineer at Oxilion. Oxilion is a large Hoster from the Netherlands with products from shared hosting to dedicated servers. Please tell us a little about Oxilion Oxilion was founded in April 2000 and focuses on internet services within the datacenter. The product range varies from [...]

The Federal Communications Commission will spill the details of its National Broadband Plan during an open meeting next Tuesday and is scheduled to present the plan to Congress the following day. One proposed provision, dubbed a "Mobile Future Auction," addresses a looming spectrum shortage in the United States at the possible expense of some free TV airwaves.

In last week's Gearhead I wrote about some pyrotechnic chemistry and said that, luckily in IT the worst thing that can happen is an occasional electrical shock or stubbed toe. I then invited you to share your stories if you had experienced anything worse.

On this lovely Friday we have an Q-A with Tim Stoop. Tim is the Managing director for Kumina which is, as you can read in the first question, an company focused on support for infrastructure, administration and hardware. Please tell us a little about Kumina Kumina supports infrastructure for large websites and other internet-related services. We do [...]

The American Registry for Internet Numbers (www.arin.net) will be holding IPv6 web hosting session at its public policy meeting, ARIN XXV, next month in Toronto, designed to bring together industry professionals, government representatives, and Internet community leaders together in an open and productive forum.
Complete info at TheWhir.

The Google over IPv6 program allows ISPs with good connectivity to request IPv6 access for most Google services. In about a week, we’ll be adding Google App Engine and the appspot.com domain to this program. This means that all App Engine apps will become accessible over IPv6 to anyone participating in the program! For most people, [...]

IPv6 Query is one of the very first iPhone applications that can resolve IPv6 Addresses. Because the high level iPhone SDK classes provided by Apple do not support IP version 6, they can not resolve host names. IPv6 Quert uses C to resolve DNS instead of the Cocoa classes that refuse to return IPv6 [...]

Erion’s David Holder is to speak at this year’s SambaXP conference in Göttingen, Germany. The paper entitled “How to Implement Samba in IPv6 Windows Server 2008 and Windows 7 Networks” will provided detailed guidance on migrating heterogeneous networks to IPv6 using Samba. Details of the Samba XP agenda can be found at http://www.sambaxp.org/index.php?id=154. Erion has been [...]

Following on a very successful event in January 2009 (videos and slides of the sessions are still available), which was supported by funding from the ISOC Community Grants Programme, the Irish National IPv6 Task Force is hosting another all-day summit in Dublin Castle, Ireland on Wednesday, 19 May 2010. More from IPv6 News…

Today we have a Q&A with Joost Tholhuijsen. Joost is the owner of Tholhuijsen Consultancy and an active member of the Dutch IPv6-Taskforce. Please tell us a little about Tholhuijsen Consultancy Tholhuijsen Consultancy assists medium and large organisations in network migrations. We help international companies in selecting their WAN vendor and solution, we lead IP renumbering [...]

mDNSResponder, used for all DNS queries in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, has a strange behavior when it comes to query DNS records. It will simultaneously ask for a A and a AAAA record when performing a DNS lookup but will be only using the first response and will reject any further [...]

The cool new handheld Wi-Fi troubleshooter from Fluke Networks can help network technicians who aren't RF engineers to quickly diagnose a range of common wireless LAN problems.

Change is afoot in the way voice calls are delivered over mobile WANs. What's not quite clear yet is how your monthly cellular bill will be affected -- and in which direction.

A list of the most popular Dutch websites according to Alexa.com. We left out the websites that are not from the Netherlands. There are 6 websites that are reachable by IPv6. But only 3 are dualstack on the main domainname. These websites are www.geenstijl.nl, www.spitsnieuws.nl and www.spele.nl. Two of the 3 websites with dualstack IPv6 are hosted [...]

You have to give Google points for great timing — and an entertaining sense of mischief. Just as the telcos are gearing up for battle with the FCC over the feasibility of widespread broadband, Google rolls out an audacious new plan to deliver gigabit/sec residential connectivity to some 500,000 users.

In our last newsletter, we discussed some of the IT initiatives that provide significant value, but which often result in unacceptable application performance. We also mentioned that one way that IT organizations respond to these challenges is by implementing an Application Delivery Controller (ADC) from companies such as F5, Citrix, Cisco, Brocade, A10, Crescendo or Radware. In this newsletter we will discuss how an ADC differs from a traditional server load balancer.

IT professionals share their love for products that can automate manual processes, improve visibility and management, and speed performance for users.

A new version of Enterasys' Wi-Fi software simplifies network management and operations, and improves client performance in 802.11n enterprise wireless LANs.

From the world of AI comes really advanced and very low-cost intelligent video surveillance.

Been meaning to catch up on IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol? We've backtracked and collected a handful of stories that will get you up to speed well before IPv4 addresses run out... Computer World

Part 3 of a good overview on the different tunnel broker options available today.

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.

Interesting post on DirectAccess using IPv6

Held September 17, 2009 in the Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC

African nations do not have the same sorts of headaches as more technologically advanced regions

ISP exec Curran takes the helm of the North American registry as IPv4 addresses are poised to run out

gogo6 Taking Over From Hexago and Moving Forward With New Vision

Ave Maria University looks to next-gen Internet to control building temperature, lighting...

The economy may have faltered, but the Internet continues growing by leaps and bounds as people keep moving online in droves -- and at faster speeds.

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