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China made its mark with its implementation of IPv6 for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. London needs to follow suit — for the good of its games and to help create an IPv6-ready infrastructure in the capital, says Axel Pawlik.

Earlier this summer, the Wimbledon quarter-finals triggered a 70-percent surge in UK internet traffic as the public watched matches online. The online viewing figures in August 2012 are expected to dwarf that Wimbledon surge, as millions around the world log on to watch the London Olympics.

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The previous two columns in this series—The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Class of 2011—discussed the Cloud and Recreational Hacking and what they mean for corporate counsel. This column looks at the third of the Horsemen: IPv6, the new protocol for the Internet that is rolling out over the next few months.

The Internet—originally known as ARPANET, among other configurations—was developed by geniuses like Jon Postel, Vint Cerf, Lawrence Roberts, and others who made the technology advances that laid the groundwork and the backbone for the worldwide web as we know it today. I was honored to have met Postel and Cerf in the 1990s when I participated in hearings before the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. The debates then centered on access and growth. One topic that was never discussed (or if it was, only in passing) was whether the Internet would ever run out of numbers – the unique identifiers known as Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. After all, the key to the Internet’s design was that it was scalable and could grow without foreseeable limitations. At least that was the plan.

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NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a worldwide leader in high-performance intelligent semiconductor solutions for next-generation Internet networks, today announced that ZTE Corporation, a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, has selected NetLogic Microsystems’ industry-leading NLA11k knowledge-based processors, optimized for Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) processing, for ZTE’s multi-terabit T8000 Cluster Router. ZTE’s T8000 Router is ideal for operators and service providers building sophisticated IP/Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) infrastructure for next-generation network backbones.

Complete info at TradersHuddle.

IPv6 is here and most companies are expected to deploy it in the next 12 to 24 months. Not all networking equipment supports or can be upgraded to use IPv6. ISI Snapshot 7.4 can inventory and tell you if your current configuration currently supports or can be upgraded to support IPv6 and helps avoid major outages caused by undetected incompatibilities.

Complete info at SFGate.

Next 13th September, a series of 20 theoretical and hands-on IPv6 training sessions (in Spanish only) will start in Madrid, as part of the Spanish Government transition plan to the new Internet Protocol, signed by the Council of Ministers last 29th April.

This will be followed by sessions in Barcelona, Valencia, León, Zaragoza, Santander, Bilbao, Logroño, Pamplona, Mérida, Ceuta, Murcia, Seville, Málaga, Las Palmas, Toledo, Palma de Mallorca, Santiago de Compostela and Oviedo.

Complete info at 6DEPLOY site.

The switch to IPv6 will not make networks more secure or more vulnerable to attack in and of itself, according to a panel of industry experts. But failing to test equipment and to make sure security features are functioning as planned could leave networks vulnerable during and after the transition to the new numbering plan.

Complete info at LightReading.