World IPv6 Launch is today!
Today is the World IPv6 Launch. This means that thousands of web sites across the world will enable IPv6 access and keep it on. It’s an important start of a change that will mean that IPv6 will be just normal work and hopefully integrated into all projects. At Edvina, we will from now on integrate IPv6 support in our platforms by default. IPv6 support is no longer an extra add-on or something that we only install if the customer asks for it. Building new platforms for TCP/IP means IPv6 included.
The World IPv6 Launch is a big step forward for the Internet. Our blog, IPv6 Friday, has covered many aspects of the World IPv6 Launch, what it is and how you should prepare for it.
- May 25, 2012: Oh no! June 6th is coming up faster than expected!
- Apr 13, 2012: No need to go backwards in time, use a reverse web proxy
- Mar 23, 2012: Get ready in time for the World IPv6 Launch
- Jan 20, 2012: Your new goal: The world IPv6 Launch
The blog at IPv6Friday.org keeps getting more readers and generates discussion.
The final Asterisk SIP Masterclass
We’ve been running the Asterisk SIP Masterclass ourselves and with partners (Telespeak in the UK and Avanzada7 in Spain) for many years now. It’s time to run the last show – as always partly with new material. Compared with the very first Asterisk SIP Masterclass I would say that I’ve rewritten 90% of the material. That’s what happens during the class. Students ask questions, you write a slide. The world changes, you write a slide. You realize you’ve been wrong, you delete or edit a slide. It’s a moving target.
The last one of these classes that I teach will be in Barcelona, Spain – June 11th to June 15th.
Why the last one?
Things change and you need to follow. During the last couple of years I’ve been running many, many in-house trainings and workshops covering both Asterisk, SIP in general and Kamailio. There seems to be more demand for customized trainings that boost a team and help them move forward. I will continue with these trainings, as well as try to come up with other trainings that will run just a few times – more lab oriented possibly. Feedback is as always very welcome.
What is this class?
From the sales material at http://www.avanzada7.com:
“This class is focusing on building a scalable SIP realtime network. With a combination of theory and practical labs, you will learn how to setup and configure Asterisk and Kamailio – the Open Source SIP server – in a scalable enterprise or service provider network. We will go through various kinds of setups and give you insight in the design of real SIP networks with Asterisk running in enterprise and service provider networks. The teacher Olle Johansson, has many years of experience as an Asterisk developer as well as a community member of Kamailio.org. By spending a week with Olle, you will get a lot of insight into current and future features, bugs and implementation details in a way that’s hard to get otherwise.
Olle is a consultant working with architecture and implementation of large scale communication platforms based on the SIP protocol. He has experience from service providers, universities, call center platforms as well as enterprise solutions. With experience of Unix and TCP/IP networking for over 20 years, he has a lot of insight and knowledge, which he is using as a teacher.”
The class is a five day high level class. You will meet not only myself, but also other students that work with these tools and protocols, learn from them and work together to solve issues in the labs. You need to have a basic knowledge of Linux (how to start/stop applications, edit text files and build applications) and Asterisk. This class is starting at a high level with Asterisk. If you rather use FreeSwitch but want to learn Kamailio that is no problem. You will just have to endure a few slides on Asterisk – but many of the issues apply to FreeSwitch as well as other PBXs too.
The cost is 3.200 Euro ex VAT. Companies outside of EU do not pay VAT as well as companies in EU with a VAT registration number.
If you have any questions or want to register, feel free to contact me on info@edvina.net. Our description of the class covers the content in more detail.
Looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona!
/Olle
Talk: The Status of IPv6 in desktop operating systems
This is a presentation by Olle E. Johansson covering the status of IPv6 in the free and Open Source operating systems compared with Windows 7 and OS/X. Sadly, Windows 7 wins. There is a lot of information missing in the user interfaces of most operating systems, lack of support in the user interfaces for Privacy Enhanced IPv6 addresses and a huge lack of support of DHCPv6.
The World IPv6 Launch!
The Internet Society has declared June 6th 2012 as the World IPv6 Launch day. Like last year’s World IPv6 Day this event is focused on the web. While last year was a test for one day, this event is focused on turning IPv6 on and keeping it activated. Many large and small web sites have joined the effort and more are signing up every day.
Turn IPv6 on – and keep it activated on your web site!
The goal is to turn on dual stack support on web sites, which also requires support for IPv6 access in DNS and many support systems. Edvina’s blog IPv6friday.org describes what you need to do in order to support IPv6 in your systems.
From the web to SMTP, SIP, XMPP and other protocols
We hope that this project can also add some momentum for other protocols than HTTP. Realtime protocols like SIP and XMPP need IPv6 support as well, and especially solutions for dual stack environments. SIP was defined for both IPv4 and IPv6 from start, but there wasn’t much consideration on dual stack deployment. The problems that have been handled by web browsers (called Happy Eyeballs) needs to be applied to almost all other protocols. Edvina is working on this, from doing testing to show the issues at SIPit 29 in Monaco 2011 to working with the SIP Forum IPv6 project.
Need help with your IPv6 project? Count on us!
In Edvina and our partners we have years of experience of TCP/IP networking and have focused on building experience and detailed knowledge about IPv6 during the last couple of years. Contact us about your IPv6 project today!
Edvina AB co-founds IPv6-forum Sweden
Edvina AB is founding member of the Swedish IPv6 Forum.
-“IPv6 is the only way forward for the Internet. IPv6 enables global growth while keeping the current architecture of the net. It is not only a matter of technology, it’s a matter of an Open Internet for everyone. It’s a matter of keeping the Internet without strange gateways and other patches to survive. IPv6 is a fundamental requirement for growth of realtime communication, like IP Telephony.” says Olle E. Johansson, founder of Edvina.
Edvina is already working with IPv6, with the SIPv6 initiative that promotes IPv6 in the Session Initiation Protocol, participating in several SIPit interoperability events with IPv6 and dual-stack tests as well as publishing the IPv6friday.org blog with new articles about IPv6 every Friday.
Olle E. Johansson have written a lot of blog entries about IPv6 on his personal blog voip-forum.com as well as on the II-foundation .SE and ISOC.SE blogs.
IPv6-forum.se is part of the global movement
The Swedish IPv6 forum is part of the global IPv6 Forum. Among the founding members are Edvina’s partners Upsys and Europoint. The initiative came from .SE and Edvina. The forum is now open for member applications.