New Zealand IPv6 Task Force

In a statement earlier this month the Broadband Forum and the IPv6 Forum announced their cooperative effort to empower the successful adoption of IPv6 in broadband deployments worldwide. This effort will “[create] the ecosystem that will ensure the continued success of the Internet as new applications and user expectations grow beyond the bounds of the [...]

Media release – 8 June 2011 On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test flight”. The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating [...]

Media release from Northland-based wireless & fibre broadband provider Uber Group 7 June, 2011 Tomorrow marks a monumental day in the history of internet identification for every computer around the world, and Northland internet service provider Uber Group is creating a New Zealand first tomorrow, being the first to migrate to & support IPv6. On [...]

REANNZ CEO Donald Clark makes the case for IPv6 in the New Zealand Computer Society’s newsline publication: “Last week, I sat next to the team from Outpost Central, a finalist at the NZ Hi-Tech awards. Outpost Central makes thousands of remote, battery powered sensors that people use for real-time water or energy use measurements, or to [...]

The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has launched a new tool to provide information on the IPv6 readiness of websites in networks. “It is a simple script that utilizes Google Analytics to measure the visitors on both your and your clients’ websites,” says APNIC. “The reporting will allow you to make better decisions on [...]