T-Mobile IPv6 Open Trial

T-Mobile USA is running an open beta (or "friendly user trial") of their IPv6-over-cellular service. If you're a T-Mobile USA customer, and have the right phone, you should check this out.

What's note-worthy about this trial is that it's self-service. Unlike the Comcast or Verizon FIOS trials, you don't have to apply and wait for approval and new gear.

To participate in the T-Mobile USA IPv6 beta service, you must:

Android devices aren't supported because of a bug with the Qualcomm chip used by many devices.

As I mentioned in an earlier post, T-Mobile USA is using DNS64/NAT64, so you should expect a few kinks (but my experience with Ecdysis's NAT64 has been very positive).

2010-07-30 14:50:16, Source: http://www.personal.psu.edu/dvm105/blogs/ipv6/2010/07/t-mobile-ipv6-open-trial.html

Background radiation in IPv6

To what extent is the IPv6 Internet polluted by background radiation?

In earlier work we set up a number of black hole experiments in the Internet, where traffic can enter the experimental setup, but the setup generates no packets in response. All received packets are recorded. So far weve used this setup to test a number of empty address blocks that have been allocated to APNIC in recent months, including 1.0.0.0/8, 14.0.0.0 and 223.0.0.0/8.

Its clear that these days the IPv4 Internet is now heavily polluted with various scanners and probes that attempt to detect the presence of vulnerable systems. This traffic is dark traffic in that it exists irrespective of whether it solicits a response from a remote system or not. The average level of dark traffic in the IPv4 Internet is an average of around 20kbps per /16, or the equivalent of a single incoming packet per address every 50 minutes.

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2010-07-30 09:32:45, Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Ipv6ActNow/~3/BYdpZ7XYRGU/

APNIC’s pool is low.The IPv4 Depletion site

APNIC has historically allocated new addresses from IANA when their pool size has been about 2 x /8. Their pool recently got below that number so we can assume that we will see an allocation of 2 x /8 from IANA to APNIC soon. All the RIR’s pool will be pretty well filled after this [...]

2010-07-29 06:12:48, Source: http://www.fix6.net/archives/2010/07/29/apnic%e2%80%99s-pool-is-low/http://www.ipv4depletion.com

Internet Society Honours Leading Chinese Technologist Dr. Jianping Wu with Postel Award

Recognition of pioneering role in Internet technologies and information access for Chinese research and educational communities.
Complete info at EarthTimes, NewsBlaze and IT News Online.

2010-07-28 18:49:53, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6332

Portugal Telecom selects Alcatel-Lucent to expand network to deliver new broadband solutions

Alcatel-Lucent on July 28 announced it has signed a major three-year agreement with Portugal Telecom to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to support existing and new services to its growing customer base.
Complete info at FinChannel.

2010-07-28 17:56:48, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6331

Radware's AppDirector Achieves IPv6 Ready Logo

AppDirector's proof of interoperability and conformance verified at the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL).
Complete info at MaketWatch, StreetInsider and EarthTimes.

2010-07-28 17:52:09, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6330

Lantronix Furthers Its Commitment to Linux

Company Announces Expanded Linux Operating System Capability for More Lantronix Products.
Complete info at MarketWatch, TradingMarkets and Live-PR.

2010-07-28 17:49:51, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6329

The looming IP-address shortage: A crisis for the internet age

The internet will run out of unique IP addresses by 2011. Does the impending "IPcalypse" threaten the future of the web?
Complete info at The Week.

2010-07-28 17:36:08, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6328

BURSTNET Web Hosting Provides IPv6 IP Addressing Now

BurstNET Technologies, Inc.™, a leading provider of budget hosting services, today announced IPv6 addressing service available end-to-end on its entire product line: including Dedicated Servers, Virtual Private Servers (VPS), & Co-Location.
Complete info at GreatResponder.

2010-07-28 17:19:04, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6327

IBM Updates Systems Director Software

IBM last week unveiled Systems Director Editions for Power Systems version 6.2, an updated collection of software for monitoring and provisioning physical and virtual Power Systems server infrastructure.
Complete info at IT Jungle.

2010-07-28 17:16:17, Source: http://www.ipv6tf.org/news/newsroom.php?id=6326