Infoblox launched its IPv6 Center of Excellence, providing enterprise IT teams with expert IPv6 tutorials, resources, guidance, training and best practices. Infoblox IPv6 expert and eminent DNS authority, Cricket Liu, has been appointed Vice President and General Manager of the CoE.
Infoblox also announced today that Owen DeLong, IPv6 Evangelist at Hurricane Electric, has joined the Infoblox IPv6 CoE Technical Advisory Board. http://www.infoblox.com/IPv6CoE
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You just read about IPv6. Here is what it replaced:
IPv4 served 1981–2011. What ultimately replaced it?
IPv4 32-bit addressing with best-effort datagram delivery and (post-CIDR) classless routing; NAT stretched its ~4.3 billion addresses far past exhaustion, keeping it alive despite IPv6. Its job passed to IPv6 — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.