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| Dream Team Supplies IPv6 Connectivity and Service
At Coalition Summit for IPv6 in May
The combined resources and capabilities of Juniper Networks, Global Crossing and Northrop Grumman have recently joined forces to provide IPv6 connectivity and services to the Coalition Summit for IPv6, being held May 23-26 in Reston, VA. This is the fifth show in the increasingly successful IPv6 Summit series of events. The May event promises to be better than ever. Over 25 booths will be connected via IPv6 to the Juniper Networks, Inc. Router that supports IPv6 as well as dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 operations. Global Crossing will provide Wide Area Network connectivity for the v6 services so that remote facilities can be connected to the show for testing and demonstrations. Northrop Grumman will provide integration services and ensure that connectivity between booths and routing equipment is functional. IPv6 is the next-generation networking protocol that will eventually replace Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), the current addressing and networking system that allows computers and IP-enabled devices to communicate online. Early pioneers of the Internet believed that the four billion individual addresses theoretically provided by IPv4 would provide an adequate supply for the researchers and academicians who made up the bulk of the original online audience. They even took large blocks of addresses out of public circulation and allocated them to governments and large organizations, because they could not imagine exhausting the supply. Of course, even these Internet visionaries could not predict the booming popularity of the World Wide Web or the rapid evolution of Internet-enabled devices. Wireless PDAs, 3G cell phones, even common household appliances threaten to outstrip the supply of IPv4 numbers. The solution, IPv6, promises to eliminate this problem for the foreseeable future. In fact, IPv6 provides an unfathomable number of addresses, using 128-bit addresses (two to the power of 128), or 80 billion billion billion times what IPv4 provides. Although some countries, including Japan and South Korea, have established mandates for governmental, research, educational and large industrial networks to support IPv6 capability by 2005, commercial adoption has been slow. Additionally, many businesses have addressed the IPv4 shortage by using Network Address Translators (NAT) and Application Layer Gateways (ALG) to duplicate existing addresses, but this approach has its drawbacks. More importantly, IPv6 does more than bolster the supply of Web-enabled addresses. It provides higher levels of security and better support for voice and video services over IP networks. Advocates of IPv6 note that this 128-bit addressing technology also allows wider audiences to receive multicast Web events and offers greater protection for people seeking to use their mobile phones for financial transactions. Juniper Networks, Inc. Juniper Networks is the leader in enabling secure and assured communications over a single IP network. The company's purpose-built, high performance IP platforms enable customers to support many different services and applications at scale. Service providers, enterprises, governments and research and education institutions worldwide rely on Juniper Networks to deliver products for building networks that are tailored to the specific needs of their users, services and applications. Juniper Networks' portfolio of proven networking and security solutions supports the complex scale, security and performance requirements of the world's most demanding networks. Additional information can be found at www.juniper.net Juniper Networks IPv6 Solution
Global Crossing Northrop Grumman Corporation Column contributed by Tim Le Master of Juniper Networks, Wanda Newman and Neal Katz of Global Crossing, and Tim Winter of Northrop Grumman. |
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