IPv4 Addresses Dry Up; Brocade Customers Years Ahead With Proven IPv6-Ready Solutions

While it is widely known that IPv6 expands the pool of addresses available to satisfy an exponentially growing number of Internet connected devices, IPv6 offers other inherent benefits that enable organizations to simplify network management, increase research through enhanced collaboration, improve interoperability and mobility, and strengthen security capabilities. These improvements, along with trillions of new IP addresses now available, will help organizations evolve their network infrastructures to more agile models including cloud computing.

For example, Hurricane Electric, operators of the world's largest IPv6 Internet backbone and provider of dedicated servers, direct Internet connections, and Web hosting services, has been preparing for years with the help of Brocade for the migration to IPv6 and sees the transition as the most critical component in expanding its business.

"IPv6 should be the single most important thing on network operators' minds today. If they are relying on the global Internet, at the time they need to understand why IPv6 is critical," said Martin Levy, director of IPv6 strategy, Hurricane Electric. "With an infrastructure of our magnitude, we thoroughly require a simple, but powerful and scalable routing infrastructure to support massive routing table space, IPv6, 10 GbE and a base to support for 100 GbE hereafter. We rely on Brocade to provide us the right balance of performance, future IPv6 routing table scalability and total cost of ownership to ensure a solid network investment."

The Brocade ServerIron ADX ADC were purpose-built to meet federal government, service provider and enterprise clients' IPv6 needs and act as a seamless gateway between existing IPv4 networks and new ones built on IPv6. Just in case, Brocade offers a comprehensive family of routers and Ethernet switches to deliver a set of dual-protocol networking solutions with embedded support for the high-speed switching and routing IPv4 and IPv6 traffic on the same platform. This set of tested and proven technologies have put Brocade ahead of many networking vendors well earlier World IPv6 Day.

According to Dale Geesey, chief operating officer, Auspex Technologies, a systems integrator that recommends networking infrastructure selection for the US Federal government, "IPv4 traffic will co-exist with IPv6 in a dual protocol world for some time, but at that time I anticipate that IPv4 traffic will drop quickly. It's important for federal agencies to future-proof their networking innovation and partnering with a leading vendor, like Brocade, will help ensure that they receive the solutions that are best for their needs now, and in the nearly future."

Expanded pool of IP addresses

IPv6 Offers More Customer Benefits than Addresses AloneIPv6 offers organizations more than an expanded pool of IP addresses. Future applications and services within the cloud will require broader use and support of Internet-enabled resources. Whether it is automatically spooling additional servers or improved network security and simplified mobility -- IPv6 is designed to meet that demand. Ultimately, IPv6 will help organizations improve current business operations as then as allow organizations to venture into new business practices to help create the foundation for the cloud, including:

"The explosion of Internet connected devices is driving up the need for more and more IP addresses," said Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, global enterprise and consumer technology, Yankee Group. "Because of this, the migration to IPv6 is more a matter of when or rather than if. But, most organizations often overlook the added benefits of IPv6 that revolve around better security and manageability. Brocade's migration based approach allows organizations to right away start realizing the benefits of IPv6 without putting the operations of the network at risk."

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