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Fostering Development and Expansion of the ARIN Community in the Caribbean How time flies! It’s already one year since we officially launched ARIN in the Caribbean, our series of outreach events for the Caribbean. At our first anniversary, we are happy to report on the success of this initiative and share our plans for 2019. 2018 Recap In 2018 we held events in eight countries including Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, the British Virgin Islands, Grenada,…

Patton IPv6 Case Study Patton saw IPv6 coming, so we knew the company had to get ready for it.  We are a networking equipment manufacturer for Voice-over-IP (VoIP) gateways and eSBCs, Ethernet extension solutions, and wireless routers. Our specialty is interconnecting legacy time-division multiplexing (TDM) and serial systems with new-generation, IP-based voice, data, and multi-media technologies. Patton supports IPv6 in its operating system and hardware platforms for the SmartNode line of VoIP customer-premise equipment (CPE). In…

 If you could learn anything in greater detail about IPv6, what would it be? IPv6 address planning? Picking a transition mechanism? Comparing DHCPv6 vs SLAAC? How to add a AAAA record in DNS? Digging into RIPng, EIGRP, IS-IS, OSPFv3, and BGP? Many organizations are ready to implement IPv6, but don’t know where to begin or how to navigate obstacles along the way. We want to help. This year we are excited to announce that we…

University at Buffalo IPv6 Case Study The University at Buffalo is the flagship school in the State University of New York (SUNY) system, with over 31,000 students and 8,600 full-time employees. We began a project to enable IPv6 campus-wide in 2014, at the direction of our senior IT leadership, the CIO and IT directors from central IT and departments around campus. Avoiding disruption From the beginning, we took an agile, but methodical, “dual-stack” approach; our…

University of Pennsylvania IPv6 Case Study IPv6 will eventually replace IPv4. However, during the transition, institutions and enterprises that deploy IPv6 won’t typically be able to start sunsetting support for IPv4 right away. So, while a valuable benefit of deploying IPv6 is the reduction (and someday elimination) of demand for IPv4 address space and network infrastructure, it will be several years before IPv6 operators will fully realize that benefit. Fortunately, implementing IPv6 does not have…