The EU commission recently organised an IPv6 workshop in Malta. I have some takeaways from that seminar, of which the most interesting part was Orange’s presentation of their all-new first ever commercially available IPv6 service.
- this is a difficult business case since it deals with underlying technology
- will not improve security
- will improve address availability
- will completely eliminate need for NAT
- therefore, internal addresses will be visible on the Internet. This will change the security perspective. More attention needs to be given to firewall configurations
- firewalls will need to manage some new concepts (any-cast, auto-configuration, randomly generated address
- offers IP mobility. A very significant feature if it works well, since users would be able to keep the same IP anywhere on the Internet!
- as with any infrastructure project, challenges in hardware and applications – training, design, testing, migration, integrate in application development
Orange’s services are online: http://www.ipv6.orange-business.com
