Bruce Sinclair has been in the IPv6 business since 2006 and is CEO of gogo6, provider of IPv6 products, the gogoNET community, the gogoNET LIVE! events and the Freenet6 IPv6 connectivity service. Original market data for his blogs is gathered from the gogoNET social network consisting of over 95,000 registered networking professionals. Bruce hosts “The IPv6 Show” podcast on iTunes and writes an IPv6 Market Intelligence newsletter for networking vendors.
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Within every organization a chosen few are tasked with introducing IPv6 into their networks, outward facing services or applications. But who are they? We know them as Network Engineers, System Administrators and Software Developers but are they one trick ponies spending all their time in layer 3? more
The sixth month of the year is both symbolic and historic for IPv6 and a good time to take stock and see how we've progressed. But instead of looking at the usual suspects of number of networks, number of users, number of websites, etc... on IPv6, let's look at some new trends to see what's happening. At gogo6 we've been measuring the "Buzz" of the IPv6 market every week over the last two and a half years. more
The theory put forward by the IETF was simple enough... while there were still enough IPv4 addresses, use transition technologies to migrate to dual stack and then wean IPv4 off over time. All nice and tidy. The way engineers, myself included, liked it. However those controlling the purse strings had a different idea. more
Starting last week there have been a number of sensational headlines about IPv6 user adoption using adjectives and phrases like, "explodes", "skyrocketing" and "conquering the world". Nice to hear for sure but what does that mean to vendors of IPv6 gear or anyone else studying the market? more
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