Welcome to the September 2007 Edition of Foundry Flash!

Ready for the Future: IPv6

The U.S. government has mandated that all its network backbones transition to IPv6 by June 30, 2008. With the number of IPv4 addresses expected to be exhausted during the next few years, the government and many other organizations are well into their migration plans.

In these merged environments, both IPv4 and IPv6 equipment must coexist in harmony. Foundry's BigIron® FastIron®, and NetIron® families of networking solutions allow enterprises and service providers to deliver merged, interoperable, high-performance IPv4 and IPv6 services.

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Dual Stack IPv4/IPv6 Routing Solutions
Foundry networking solutions deliver a full set of IPv6 routing and security features, sophisticated tunneling options, and managing, monitoring, and auditing through sFlow. The Foundry enterprise and service provider solutions offer:

• hardware-based, ASIC-based, high-performance IPv6 forwarding
• full IPv6 routing, as well as transition technology to support dual-protocol networks extended security features for IPv6
• embedded sFlow technology
• both IPv4 and IPv6 forwarding at wire speed
• support for unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols

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The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
When the remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 address is depleted, we may face some problems on the Internet and within our business environments unless we make smart choices. These decisions need to be planned well in advance to ensure a trouble-free, painless, and inexpensive transition to the new world of IPv6.
--from IPv6 Portal

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Enterprise and Service Provider Solutions for Merged IPv4 and IPv6 Network Services
Security and management are frequently overlooked in the design of dual-protocol networks. Foundry has addressed these issues in its IPv6 networking solutions with a set of extensions to provide IPv6-aware VLANs and access control lists and a high-speed implementation of sFlow. Foundry describes the features necessary to provide highly functional, dual-protocol networks that provide instrumentation for network-wide visibility and extended support for security.
--featured in 6Sense from IPv6 Summit

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