John Spence's slides for the "Advancing the Network: Where We've Been, Where We're Headed" panel at ION San Diego on 11 December 2012.

1. IPV6
DEPLOYMENT
PERSPECTIVE
BY
JOHN
SPENCE,
VP
OF
IP
SERVICES,
NEPHOS6
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©
Nephos6,
Inc
2011

2. IPv6
Implementa-on
is
Not
Rocket
Science
• Advance
planning
is
an
advantage
• Not
being
under
duress
is
an
advantage
• Expect
it
to
be
a
big,
wide-­‐ranging
project
• Expect
it
to
take
awhile
• Look
at
it
as
an
opportunity
to
advance
your
IT
capability
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©
Nephos6,
Inc
2011

3. IPv6
Standards
Well
Advanced
• Many
standards,
many
revisions,
more
coming,
breadth
and
depth
covered
• Upshot:
most
everything
you
need
is
standardized
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©
Nephos6,
Inc
2011

4. IPv6
Support
in
Products
Good
and
Improving
• Many
products
IPv6
ready,
robust,
or
robust
features
on
roadmaps
• Note
“ready”
is
a
difficult
term
to
pin
down
• Upshot:
most
everything
you
want
to
implement
is
produc-on-­‐ready
or
will
be
soon
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©
Nephos6,
Inc
2011

5. IPv6
Deployment
Status
Mixed
Website
IPv6
Service?
Google.com
YES
YouTube.com
YES
Facebook.com
YES
TwiTer.com
NO
Yahoo.com
YES
MSN.com
NO
Amazon.com
NO
Wikipedia.com
NO
MicrosoV.com
NO
• Leading:
content
and
Bing.com
YES
backbone
Comcast
ISP
IPv6
Service?
YES
• Middle:
broadband
and
mobile
ATT
Time
Warner
YES
NO
• Soon:
enterprises
and
cloud
CenturyLink
NO
Charter
YES
Verizon
NO
Hurricane
Elect
YES
Level3
NO
Cogent
YES
NTT
YES
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Inc
2011

6. Keys
to
a
Successful
Deployment
(1
of
4)
• Consider
overall
business
and
IT
goals
• Develop
“strawman”
IPv6
strategy,
architecture,
-meline
(first
revision)
• Learn
and
experiment
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©
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Inc
2011

7. Keys
to
a
Successful
Deployment
(2
of
4)
• Architect
and
design
solu-on
(second
revision)
• Develop
organiza-on-­‐specific
“IPv6-­‐ready”
profile
– Generic
examples
readily
available
– Important
set
of
requirements
is
*yours*
– Follows
from
strawman
architecture
and
design
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Inc
2011

8. Keys
to
a
Successful
Deployment
(3
of
4)
• Inventory
and
access
broad
“IPv6
Readiness”
• Architect
and
design
solu-on
(third
revision)
• Conduct
pilot
deployment
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Inc
2011

9. Keys
to
a
Successful
Deployment
(4
of
4)
• Architect
and
design
solu-on
(fourth
revision)
• Implement
and
validate
• Operate
and
tune
• Innovate
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©
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Inc
2011

10. Nephos6
“IPv6
Sonar”
• Tracks
rela-ve
IPv4
and
IPv6
performance
for
URL
• Interes-ng
tool
for
performance
monitoring
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©
Nephos6,
Inc
2011

11. THANK
YOU
Contact
InformaPon
John
Spence
spence@nephos6.com
425-­‐260-­‐0112
www.nephos6.com
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Nephos6,
Inc
2011