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Last week saw the first IPv6 Future Enabler Conference in Edinburgh UK. The one day event had a very full schedule with speakers from, Erion, Cisco, EE, RIPE, Sony, IPv6 Forum, Go6 and Deutsche Telekom AG.

All the presentations highlighted a number of common key messages. These included the reality that IPv6 is already widely deployed, the fact that the problems of CGN are likely to drive even greater adoption of IPv6 and that today IPv6 enabled End Users find that over 50% of their traffic is over IPv6.

A highlight during the conference was when BT’s Stuart Smith (BT’s Director of IPv6 Programme) announced from the floor that BT intend to deploy IPv6 to broadband users in 2015. The reason that he gave for BT’s move to deploy IPv6 was the need to avoid the serious problems of CGN which BT trialled in 2013. This is closely linked to the CGN report published by Ofcom in 2013 for which the lead technical author was Erion’s David Holder.

Overall the conference reflected a very exciting time for IPv6 generally and specifically in the UK. The news for the UK is particularly good where after many years of lagging behind the rest of the world by almost any meaningful metric we can now look forward to quickly catching up.

The IPv6 Future Enabler was sponsored by Erion, the world’s leading IPv6 Training company.

Erion are delighted to announce an exciting new IPv6 conference in 2014. This is the first UK IPv6 conference of its kind and the first to be held in Scotland.  Full details can be found below.

IPv6 Future Enabler:

20th November 2014, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK

We are proud to announce the launch of IPv6 Future Enabler, a one day conference focussing on the implications of IPv6 deployment. This conference is organised by Scot-Tech Engagement with support from the IPv6 Forum.

The event will bring together leading experts and industry representatives to share their extensive experience of IPv6 , featuring a unique and ambitious programme of presentations, case studies and discussion, the conference will consider the challenges posed by the exhaustion of the IPv4 address pool and the subsequent deployment of IPv6 and associated technologies.

This is the first conference of its type in the UK and the first IPv6 conference ever to be held in Scotland. Consequently, the event will present an opportune forum for knowledge exchange and debate with renowned experts and like-minded peers from across the globe.

The conference will consider:

• Where are we now?

A review of the status of IPv6 in the UK and globally and ongoing implications of the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space.

• How, when and why?

How when and why to deploy IPv6 in different organisations and network scenarios.

• Realising the benefits of IPv6

An analysis of how best to realise the benefits of IPv6. Including new networking models and opportunities made possible through IPv6.

• What next?

A discussion of what will happen next with IPv6 and how IPv6 will influence the future of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT).

Why attend?

• Learn from the extensive knowledge of renowned experts and the practical experience of industry leaders
• Engage and network with like-minded peers from across the country
• Contribute to compelling discussions and knowledge exchange

Registration

Due to generous support from the events sponsors, we have a limited allocation of discounted bursary places. Consequently, the first 50 delegates for this event will obtain a 50% reduced rate.

To register visit: http://www.ipv6-uk.com/book-now/

Discounted Rate = £99 , Standard Rate = £199 . Spaces are very limited so please book as soon as possible.

Erion is pleased to announce the public release of two new IPv6 training courses for Juniper and HP routers and switches. These two courses complement Erion’s existing large IPv6 course portfolio which covers Cisco IOS, Windows, Linux and Unix.

Full details of these courses can be found at the links below:

• Implementing IPv6 on Juniper
• Implementing IPv6 on HP

Erion is the world’s leading provider of IPv6 training. We have the largest portfolio of IPv6 training courses, suitable for all audiences, covering all aspects of IPv6 on all major operating systems and platforms. Erion’s courses are certified by the IPv6 Forum and are part of the Erion IPv6 Certified training programme. In addition to our public IPv6 training schedule, we also provide IPv6 training as on-site courses and we provide Erion Modular IPv6 Training which allows for a bespoke training programme to be created based on our hundreds of IPv6 training modules.For further information please contact us on +44 (0)1422 207000, enquiry@erion.co.uk or through our web-site contact form.

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Erion is proud to announce the release of a new and comprehensive Samba course. This course covers all aspects of Windows and Linux/Unix integration focussing mainly on solutions based upon samba the Open Software world’s leading cross-platform integration solution. Not only does this course cover the latest versions and features of Samba it also is applicable to the most recent releases of Microsoft Windows including Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1.

The first public run of this course is scheduled for February 2015 in London UK. Full details of the course and its current schedule can be found here.

Microsoft’s US Azure service is now using IPv4 addresses from outside the US. This means that US based VMs can appear to be located in foreign countries. Sometimes this can cause issues for users who utilise geo-location services. Microsoft explains in its post that it is working closely with several geo-location database services to alleviate these issues.

Microsoft Azure’s problems are another example of the growing issues that service providers and users are beginning to experience during the final phase of IPv4 address exhaustion. The only long term solution is IPv6. Unfortunately, Azure is one Microsoft service which is still waiting to be IPv6 enabled.

Today Ofcom released a report into the Implications of Carrier Network Address Translators.

One of the author’s of the report, Erion’s Dr David Holder said;

“This report is the most comprehensive analysis of the implications of Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) deployment ever carried out. The report demonstrates that CGN deployment has the potential to have a negative impact on a surprisingly widespread and disparate set of groups, consisting of users, service providers, law-enforcement and policy makers.

“One of the most interesting findings that came out of writing this report, was that all parties involved, from service providers to application providers, are reluctant to deploy CGN and emphasised that IPv6 is the only real long term solution to the IPv4 address exhaustion problem. Even more interesting, we found that large ISPs that have deployed CGN used the parallel deployment of IPv6 to mitigate some of the negative impact of CGN deployment.”

“Deploying IPv6 in parallel to CGN provides Internet users with a native IPv6 path to the Internet thereby bypassing the issues caused by CGN. The Service Providers we talked about who have deployed IPv6 to their customers have found that even today over 30% of these customer’s traffic is now native IPv6. This is an amazing figure when you consider who much of the Internet is not yet IPv6 enabled and it reflects the fact that many of the Internet’s biggest players have already deployed IPv6.”

Ofcom should be commended for commissioning and releasing this valuable resource.

Ofcom has just published a report on IPv6; MC-111 Internet Protocol Version 6 Deployment Study.

One of the author’s of the report, Erion’s Dr David Holder said;

“This important report again demonstrates the need for the UK to move faster towards the widespread deployment of IPv6. The UK is lagging behind all comparable nations in the move to IPv6. This will have an impact on the nature and quality of Internet services in the UK, which will have consequences for UK businesses and consumers alike.

“Ofcom should be commended for commissioning and publishing this report.”

For further information on IPv6 in the UK and deploying IPv6 in your environment please contact us at Erion and we could be happy to help.

Today day is the World IPv6 day the day when many well known companies will turn on IPv6 on their web-sites and email servers for the first time.

Here at Erion, we have been running IPv6 for nearly 15 years and so we have no need to turn anything on today, it will be service as normal. For a long time we have successfully run all our Internet facing services over IPv6 and most of our internal services over IPv6. This has been a great success and we have experienced very few problems. In the main, the deployment of IPv6 was easy.

However, as the world’s leading IPv6 training company, you would expect us to get the deployment of IPv6 right.

For others it can be more challenging. It is easy to turn on IPv6 services but there are many differences between IPv4 and IPv6 that can lead to problems. Many assume that IPv6 is the same as IPv6, just with longer addresses. This is not the case. IPv6 has many differences, for example use of multicast, auto-configuration, transition mechanisms and support for new features such as mobility. In addition, the large number of Transition Mechanisms bring a great deal of additional complexity to IPv6. Therefore, when deploying IPv6 is it is important to understand the differences from IPv4 and learn the about the pitfalls and how to avoid them.

To all those who are enabling IPv6 for the first time, we wish them a successful World IPv6 day!

About Erion

Erion is the world’s leading provider of IPv6 training. We have the largest portfolio of IPv6 training courses, suitable for all audiences, covering all aspects of IPv6 on all major operating systems and platforms. In addition to our public IPv6 training schedule, we also provide IPv6 training as on-site courses and we provide Erion Modular IPv6 Training which allows for a bespoke training programme to be created based on our hundreds of IPv6 training modules.For further information please contact us on +44 (0)1422 207000, enquiry@erion.co.uk or through our web-site contact form.

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Erion is pleased to announce that we are running some of our world-leading IPv6 training courses as public events in London UK during July 2011.

On the 4th July we are running our 1-day Introduction to IPv6 which is a comprehensive technical overview of IPv6. From the 5th to the 8th July we are running our flagship 4-day Implementing IPv6 course. Developed over 13 years, this course covers all aspects of IPv6 in comprehensive detail and is ideal for all technical staff wishing to learn more about IPv6. Delegates have the option to chose to carry out hands-on exercises on Linux, Cisco IOS or Windows.

Erion is the world’s leading provider of IPv6 training. We have the largest portfolio of IPv6 training courses, suitable for all audiences, covering all aspects of IPv6 on all major operating systems and platforms. In addition to our public IPv6 training schedule, we also provide IPv6 training as on-site courses and we provide Erion Modular IPv6 Training which allows for a bespoke training programme to be created based on our hundreds of IPv6 training modules.For further information please contact us on +44 (0)1422 207000, enquiry@erion.co.uk or through our web-site contact form.

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3rd February 2011 is the day that IANA (The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) finally assigned the last five /8 blocks (slash-eight blocks), one to each Regional Internet Registry (RIR).

Now the IPv4 Internet only has the stock of IPv4 addresses held by the regional registrars and Internet Service Provides (ISPs) to keep it going.

If you have not yet implemented or migrated to IPv6 then now is the time to do so. World-wide the move to IPv6 is rapidly gaining momentum as a result of the exhaustion of the IPv4 address pool. IPv6 is the only solution to the Internet address shortage. It is well developed and well understood. There are many good reasons to implement IPv6 and few down sides.

As a first stage in implementing IPv6, it is crucial that you train your staff. IPv6 is not simply IPv4 with longer addresses. There are many more differences between IPv6 and IPv4.

The differences do indeed start with changes to addresses, but they are not simply in the size of the addresses but also the types of addresses, their attributes and the way they are used. In addition to this, IPv6 includes many new features and makes better use of some of the features found in IPv4. For example, in IPv6 ICMPv6 is used for many critical functions. In IPv4, it is often possible to ignore ICMP, in IPv6 you cannot. This is one small example of the way in which IPv6 is different from IPv4. Others include, use of mulitcast, mobility, IPSec, QoS and the huge area of transitiom mechanisms.

So IPv6 education is critical.

Erion has been providing IPv6 services for over twelve years. As a part of this we provide the world’s most comprehensive and well-developed IPv6 training courses. Erion’s IPv6 training covers all aspects of IPv6, for all audiences, across all major platforms and operating systems. Erion’s certified IPv6 trainers and IPv6 training courses represent the best in the industry. Our customers include many of the world’s leading IT names, for example, Alcatel-Lucent, Arbor Networks, Atos Origins, BAA, BT, Cisco, Ericsson, France Telecom, HP, IBM, The International Telecommunications Union, Microsoft, Orange and Research in Motion.

For more details regarding Erion’s IPv6 training courses see http://www.ipv6training.com.

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