Global IPv6 Strategies: From Business Analysis to Operational Planning

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Network Business Series

Justify Your Network Investment



The definitive guide to IPv6 decision making for non-technical business leaders



Every year, organizations rely on Internet applications and services more deeply–and every year, Internet infrastructure grows more powerful and complex. As the limitations of traditional IPv4 addressing become increasingly apparent, many decision makers recognize that a transition to IPv6 is needed far sooner than anticipated. Global IPv6 Strategies gives non-technical decision makers the information to plan and execute an orderly, efficient migration to IPv6–and reap the business benefits.



This book’s authors offer practical scenarios, proven best practices, and real-world case studies drawn from their unsurpassed experience helping enterprises and service providers move to IPv6. Writing for non-technical decision makers, they systematically review the costs, benefits, impacts, and opportunities associated with IPv6 migration. Their insights and strategies can help you address both the technical side of IPv6 and the rarely discussed organizational issues that can make or break your transition.



Patrick Grossetete, manager of Product Management at Cisco®, is responsible for key Cisco IOS® software technologies including IPv6 and IP Mobility. A member of the IPv6 Forum Technical Directorate, he has been honored with the IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award.



Ciprian P. Popoviciu, PhD, CCIE® No. 4499, technical leader at Cisco, focuses on architecting, designing, and testing large IPv6 network deployments for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Grossetete and Popoviciu co-authored Deploying IPv6 Networks (Cisco Press).



Fred Wettling manages architecture and strategic planning for Bechtel. Wettling is a member of the IEEE, North American IPv6 Task Force, and IPv6 Forum; directs the IPv6 Business Council; chaired the Network Applications Consortium (NAC); and served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee Next Generation Network Task Force.



* Understand how efficient IP communications are rapidly becoming even more central to business and economic growth.
* Get past the “IPv4 vs. IPv6” myths that prevent effective decision making and planning.
* Objectively assess the constraints of existing IPv4 infrastructures–and learn how IPv6 can overcome them.

* Develop and analyze the business case for IPv6–with help from real-world, never-before-published case studies.
* Identify hidden business opportunities IPv6 can unleash.

* Choose the optimal IPv6 adoption strategy for your enterprise or organization.
* Learn realistic best practices for planning successful migrations



This volume is in the Network Business Series offered by Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide IT executives, decision makers, and networking professionals with pertinent information about today’s most important technologies and business strategies.



Category: Networking Technology

Covers: IPv6



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Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #80387 in Books
* Published on: 2008-05-25
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 456 pages

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About the Author

Patrick Grossetete, manager of product management at Cisco, is responsible for a suite of Cisco IOS software technologies, including IPv6 and IP Mobility. He manages Cisco participation in the IPv6 Forum and is a regular speaker at conferences and industry events. Patrick is coauthor of Deploying IPv6 Networks (Cisco Press). In June 2003, he received the “IPv6 Forum Internet Pioneer Award” at the San Diego summit. Patrick joined Cisco in 1994 as a consulting engineer. Before joining Cisco, Patrick worked at Digital Equipment Corporation as a consulting engineer and was involved with network design and deployment. He received a degree in computer science from the Control Data Institute, Paris, France.



Ciprian Popoviciu, PhD, CCIE No. 4499, is a technical leader at Cisco Systems with more than ten years of experience in data and Voice over IP communications technologies. As part of the Cisco Network Solution Integration Test Engineering (NSITE) organization, he focuses on the architecture, design, and validation of large IPv6 network deployments in direct collaboration with service providers and enterprises worldwide. Ciprian is a regular speaker or chair at conferences and industry events and contributes to various technology publications. He is an active contributor to the IETF standards, a senior member of IEEE, a member of several academic advisory boards, and a coauthor of Deploying IPv6 Networks (Cisco Press). Ciprian holds a BS from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania, and an MS and Ph.D. from the University of Miami.



Fred Wettlingmanages architecture and strategic planning for Bechtel Corporation, one of the world’s premier engineering, construction, and project management companies. Fred is one of 20 Bechtel Fellows out of a population of 40,000. He has extensive experience in project and office startups, major technology transitions, innovations, and technology operations at 20+ Bechtel projects and offices. Fred is active within and outside of Bechtel promoting standards-based technology interoperability that supports global enterprise business needs. Fred is a member of the IEEE, North American IPv6 Task Force, and IPv6 Forum, and is executive director of the IPv6 Business Council. He served as the Network Applications Consortium (NAC) chairman for five years. Fred was selected as one of the 50 most powerful people in networking by Network World from 2003 to 2006. He is a senior member of the Cisco Enterprise and Federal Technical Advisory Boards and served on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) Next Generation Network Task Force as a subject matter expert.



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Introduction

The continued evolution and operation of the Internet as a truly global asset faces multiple challenges: impending exhaustion of the global IPv4 address space, new operating systems and applications, next generation infrastructures, and demand for always-on connectivity for a growing variety of devices. The requirements of a new Internet, the pressure generated by the lack of resources for the existing one, and government mandates are just a few drivers for the soaring interest in IPv6 and the demand for information related to the protocol. The technological aspects of the next generation Internet protocol have been diligently covered through a wide range of publications. Considering, the potential implications of early versus late IPv6 adoption, there is significant interest in information related to adoption strategies, to business perspectives on IPv6 use, and to concrete experiences.

The global impact of a technology or a set of technologies on the larger population and the society as a whole can truly be evaluated years after its creation when enough data has been accumulated for a proper analysis. As an example, the unprecedented, wide range of advances made in all domains of life (arts, education, politics, philosophy, literature, and science) during the Renaissance period, one of the most prolific periods in human history, can be traced to the adoption of one technology: printing. Gutenberg's invention increased the amount of documented knowledge and information by reducing the costs of capturing it. More importantly, printing dramatically increased accessibility to knowledge and information by reducing the replication costs. One technology enabled human civilization to build its knowledge base and to tap into a significantly larger pool of talent. These scaled-up resources were the information and communication infrastructure that enabled innovations in all aspects of human life.

In itself, the "moveable type" technology, as Gutenberg called it, was not the prize but just the enabler. Gutenberg's enterprise defaulted shortly after a promising start but it enabled an information revolution that was the catalyst of many other revolutions. The often drawn parallel between the discovery and history of printing and that of the Internet highlights the same characteristic. The Internet represents the enabler of today's information revolution, changing the way we live, play, learn, and work.

A close evaluation of the two information revolutions highlights a very important difference. The printing-based revolution was to a certain extent asymmetric—it somewhat reduced the cost of producing content while it vastly reduced the cost of accessing content. This paradigm was further supported and expanded in scope through other media means such as radio and television. Although in its initial implementation stages the Internet appeared to do the same thing, as it matured, it enabled a more symmetric information revolution by dramatically decreasing the costs of producing content. The Internet is reducing the costs of producing and consuming information, and bringing together enough users to create an audience for any niche content. In addition, the Internet is providing its users with ubiquitous global access to information, removing the distance and time barriers faced in the past. The Internet has laid the foundation for a new and different information revolution. While traditional media such as newspaper, radio, and television cater to the mainstream, the Internet addresses new audiences and enables new means of communications and new business models.

It is important to make a clear distinction between the Internet and the applications that run over it. These applications are apparent to most of its users and are the true measure of the economic and societal impact of the Internet. With the exception of technologists, however, the terms Internet (infrastructure) and World Wide Web (application) are for most people interchangeable. While like many other technologies such as railroads, automobiles, and radio, the Internet inspired its own economic bubble, it survives, continues to grow, and provides the environment for truly valuable applications and services. This infrastructure and its evolution is the focus of this book despite the necessary references to its uses.

From its initial deployment as a research network to its current state, the Internet as an infrastructure has seen the functionality of the devices, applications, and services deployed on it grow in direct relation to its capabilities, capacity, and scale:

Higher speeds: The Internet is leveraging newer technologies providing wired or wireless access with ever-increasing bandwidths and lower costs.

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Larger footprint: The "network of networks," as the Internet is known, continues to expand its geographical coverage and to include more and more businesses and people.
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Including more device types: The Internet evolved from interconnecting large mainframes with dumb terminals to connecting personal computers, mobile phones, and sensors.
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Always-on connectivity: Ubiquitous in nature, the Internet enables its users to communicate continuously regardless of their point of attachment.

To support Web 2.0, which encompasses the latest set of Internet-based applications and services, the infrastructure continues to evolve through the so-called Next Generation Networks. Web 2.0 is finally taking advantage of the Internet's true potential and distances by its immediate "people-to-people" collaborative environment from the technologies that expanded the information revolution started by printing. Web 2.0 is starting the next information revolution, and for that it requires an ever-increasing user base, individually addressable users, and symmetric (similar upstream and downstream bandwidth), always-on, mobile connections. Will the technology be able to cope with these demands?

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