I’m cross posting this blog entry from Verizon Business’ blog, Think Forward. It’s great read-out on an important topic.
Verizon and IPv6
By Daniel Awduche
A Feb. 15 New York Times article, “Drumming Up More Addresses On the Internet,” discusses the need for Internet Service Providers to facilitate the move to the next generation Internet protocol, IPv6. As the operator of the world's most interconnected global IP backbone network, Verizon is committed to help ensure that we along with our business and government customers are actively engaged in this important transition.
Through its acquisition of MCI, Verizon has a rich heritage advancing the state of the global Internet and supporting the rapidly increasing number of IP-based services, applications and devices connecting people and machines to each other worldwide. As one of the first commercial Internet backbone network providers (UUNET) in 1988, our company has helped blaze a trail creating a global digital economy and the “borderless lifestyle” that has redefined the nature of how we work, live and experience entertainment.
Thanks to Vint Cerf, who championed the need for a next generation Internet protocol during his years as a senior vice president for MCI, our Very High Speed Broadband Network Service (vBNS) in 1998 became one of the first commercial production networks to deploy native IPv6. In fact, vBNS was the second network in North America to be allocated IPv6 address space from ARIN for live production traffic, and it was also a founding backbone member of the 6bone academic network initiative to test IPv6 on a global basis.
Today, we can offer our enterprise and government customers IPv6 dedicated Internet services on a global basis, including support for Dual Stack (e.g., IPv4 and IPv6 concurrently) and native and tunneled IPv6. Throughout this year, we will continue to roll out IPv6 capabilities across our global Private IP network services. And, we are leveraging the expertise of our people, offering a suite of professional consulting services to help businesses and government agencies tailor a clear and seamless path for IPv6 adoption within their specific operations.
The new Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network has IPv6 built-in with the requirement that all LTE devices must be IPv6 capable. Our company websites are becoming IPv6-enabled, and we continue to test IPv6 with our FiOS service to make this transition as seamless as possible for all of our customers.
There is still more work to be done, but rest assured that we are busy at work to help ensure that we all continue to experience the Internet as we know it and all of the facets inherent in the fabric of our connected lives today and in the future.