IPv6: next generation Internet protocol adds 4 billion times more space


On June 8, 2011 major web companies such as Facebook, and Yahoo!, will allow IPv6 to run on their main websites for 24 hours. These websites along with Google have more than one billion combined visits each day. They are joining major content delivery networks Akamai and Limelight Networks along with the Internet Society, for the first global-scale 24 hour trial run of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6.

Internet users will not have to do anything to prepare for this 24 hour global event. According to the Internet Society, the vast majority of users, about 99.5%, will be unaffected. There will be some cases where users may experience connectivity problems due to the fact that their home network device is not configured correctly.


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Intel brings innovation to the networked world with software based routing (soft routing). Valiant load balancing is technology that is critical to the success of the RouterBricks project. With a valiant mesh, multiple servers are connected together to act as one packet forwarding engine. Router can be scaled up or down based on the particular needs of an environment. Servers can enter or exit the cluster without effecting the stability of the entire cluster.

How Google and OpenDNS Are Speeding Up Your Internet





Google and OpenDNS have teamed up on a project called The Global Internet Speedup. This isn't an Internet technology like, say, Google's SPDY. The Global Internet Speedup simply routes users to DNS servers close to them, thereby minimizing the latency involved in loading a webpage.

DNS servers are responsible for translating domain names into IP addresses and routing you to to the correct content server when you type in a name like Google.com. The problem: they don't know where you are, and can't properly route you to the most efficient server in your neck of the woods. That's where Global Internet Speedup comes in: the project adds a snippet of your IP address to a DNS request. By passing that along to the CDN, your computer can be routed to the nearest/least busy content server, making for a faster connection.


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It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen tells us how we can stop these new viruses from threatening the internet as we know it.

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The next big shift is now, and it's not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. At TEDxSantaCruz, tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet.