*** Update 7 January 2013 : The APLITS website is now back up and serving the DoD APL community*** This blog entry is mainly for the DoD Unified Capability Approved Products List clients we have at this time. The DoD contract for the DoD Unified Communications Office (UCCO)…
Read More →I have recently started working in a datacenter configuring quite a few Nexus 7000 series switches to act mainly as datacenter access switches - mainly making use of the popular features of Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs) and Virtual Port-Channels (vPCs). Well, IPv6 is a key part…
Read More →Well, today is the day, or the last day I should say. At midnight tonight, the US Government will have shut the books on yet another Fiscal Year. Although, it's not finances that has the technology industry glued to government tech news; it's IPv6 adoption. By the end of FY…
Read More →***Updated on 14 May 2014 - regarding NET-IPv6-022, See below*** Thousands of network engineers in the DoD out there looking at implementing IPv6 now have to address a few Security and Technical Implementation Guidance (STIG) items that they used to just annotate as "Not…
Read More →Last month I presented the case as to why 802.1x authentication is not enough for local network (wired or wireless) security ( go back here to read ). In this post I will present an alternative: IPv6 Secure Neighbor Discovery (SeND). If you have an IPv6 enterprise, small IPv6…
Read More →Fairfax, VA -- (August 16, 2012) - NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP ), a leader in data storage and storage provisioning enterprise and data center products achieved the Defense Department Unified Capabilities Approved Products List (UC APL) certification with the help of the…
Read More →There's been much debate in the IPv6 community regarding the abysmal support or IPv6 Secure Neighbour Discovery (SeND). To get you up to speed on what IPv6 Secure Neighbour Discovery is think IPv6 + 802.1x-like + ARP security + PKI environment. Later in this blog I'll show you…
Read More →Software Defined Networking (SDN) is the new buzzword in IT today. It has become synonymous with things like cloud, cyber security, CDN, and yes even IPv6. The curious thing is that they are all inter-related. Open Flow, which is a specification of the Open Network Foundation,…
Read More →One week ago today (6 June 2012), the Internet Society (ISOC) led the charge on a voluntary initiative called World IPv6 Launch . Participating in this event were: five home router vendors, 77 Internet Service Providers, and 3,013 websites. By signing up as a website or ISP, you…
Read More →Well, it is now roughly four months until the U.S. Federal Government is supposed to have its publicly-facing network services enabled for IPv6 by 30 September 2012 according to the White House directive in 2010 . More specifically: Upgrade public/external facing servers and…
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