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IT Firms Plan Permanent Switch to IPV6 for World IPV6 Day on June 6, 2012

February 8, 2012 — Major Internet service providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are participating in the Internet Society’s upcoming World IPv6 Launch where they will permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6. Last year’s World IPv6 Day was a success, with no problems reported from the more than 400 participating web hosts and content providers.

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More than 4,000 Students Get Hurricane Electric IPv6 Certification

January 27, 2012 — Colocation hosting and Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric announced on Friday that to date, its IPv6 certification program has certified 4,000 IPv6 Sages – the highest level of certification offered by the program – in 100 countries.

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Colocation Firm Hurricane Electric Connects to Czech Internet Exchange

January 19, 2012 — Colocation provider Hurricane Electric announced on Thursday it has connected to NIX.CZ, the Czech Republic’s largest Internet exchange. This new connection will expand Hurricane Electric’s network reach in Europe and provide customers of NIX.CZ with greater bandwidth, reduced latency and improved quality of service.

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SpamExperts IPv6 Whitelist Foundation Wins IPv6 Task Force Award

November 18, 2011 — The IPv6 Task Force announced on Thursday that the winner of its IPv6 Awards is the Foundation IPv6 Whitelist non-profit initiative founded by email security firm SpamExperts. The awards aim to bring awareness to the shift to IPv6 and the specific implementations of IPv6 adoption, according to its website.

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Survey Points to Increased IPv6 Adoption by Service Providers in 2012

October 24, 2011 — According to the results of a survey previewed in September and prepared on behalf of the Number Resource Organization made up of the five Regional Internet Registries, a growing number of service providers intend to deploy IPv6 on their networks in 2012.

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F5 Networks Launches New Solution to Ease IPv6 Migration

October 3, 2011 — Application delivery networking firm F5 Networks announced on Monday that it has launched its new IPv6 Solution Services offering. According to the press release, this offering will help organizations transition to or support IPv6 addresses.

Hosting Controller 8.12 Supports IPv6, Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Switch

September 7, 2011 — Web hosting software developer Hosting Controller announced on Wednesday it is now offering support for IPv6 and Exchange 2010 SP1 Hosting Switch in the latest updated version of its unified control panel. The move comes a few months after Hosting Controller launched a virtualization module based on Microsoft Hyper-V and Xen Hypervisor technology.

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Hurricane Electric Partners with Internet Society Hong Kong for Chinese IPv6 Certification

September 2, 2011 — Internet backbone and colocation provider Hurricane Electric announced on Friday that it is partnering with Internet Society Hong Kong to launch the first IPv6 Certification Program in Asia. According to the press release, it will be the first non-English global IPv6 certification program since it will be conducted in Chinese.

ARIN's John Curran Discusses Preparation for IPv6 Adoption

August 8, 2011 — In his presentation, “Ready or Not… IPv6 is here!”, John Curran, president and CEO of American Registry for Internet Numbers talked about the depletion of IPv4 and the imperative need for the Internet community to adopt IPv6. IPv4 was first developed in spring of 1978, which allowed for a total of 4 billion IP addresses available.

World IPv6 Day a Success, say Organizers and Web Hosts

June 9, 2011 — The organizers behind World IPv6 Day, along with more than 400 participating web hosts and content providers, called Wednesday’s event a success, with no significant problems reported. Sponsored and organized by the Internet Society, the event tested public IPv6 deployments in a “real world” setting for 24 hours.