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Network Automation, IPv6, and Beyond
Announcing 6meta
We’ve all seen it in the news, the metaverse is coming! Ahoy! The internet is about to get, well, more internety. Keeping in line with this trend, we’re moving forward as the newly branded 6meta. We’re still the 6connect you’ve come to know and adore, but with a new...
Announcing TDS Telecom Case Study
We are pleased to announce our latest case study with TDS Telecom, a Wisconsin-based telecommunications company that delivers broadband with the TCP/IP protocol suite. What TDS needed IP address management is critical to allow TDS to allocate addresses, maintain...
NANOG 84 Conference Recap
NANOG 84 kicked off this month on Valentine’s Day, spreading the love by offering both in-person and virtual meetings from February 14 - 16. The conference was hosted in Austin, Texas this time around with a Sunday hackathon followed by three full days of conference...
Announcing ProVision Version 8
Due to the extensive updates coming in ProVision 8 for ProVision 7 users, here is a blog post to give you the basics. First off – some stats. This is one of our largest releases to date with over 80 improvements, 13 new features and 3 new Modules. Needless to say,...
Six Steps to IPv6 (2022)
First - a Little Background The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) is the entity responsible for handing out IP addresses for the Internet. IANA has announced that available IPv4 addresses, the ones we are most familiar with today with four groups of numbers,...
IPv6 Overview from APNIC Academy
APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) hosts a number of training events each year. With over 50 tutorials, workshops, and online labs and courses, APNIC Academy is an incredible resource to the networking community. The online course that caught our...
Top 5 Concerns of Network Admins About Migrating to IPv6 in 2022
Last Updated: Dec 28, 2021 Network administrators that have not acknowledged the existence of IPv6 do so at the peril of their employers and customers. This is due to not only technology moving forward according to new standards and best practices, but the fact that...
6connect Security Update – log4j(CVE 2021-44228)
Since December 9, computer programmers have been working tirelessly to remediate vulnerabilities to log4j, a chunk of code that helps software applications track their past activities. A bug was discovered in log4j that is straightforward to take advantage of and...
The Path to IPv6 Part 2
IPv6 is already here, but it is unevenly distributed. Many of the Internet devices around us can be configured to support the IPv6 protocol suite, but we are often still using legacy IPv4 systems. As you probably already know, the IPv4 address space is exhausted, and...
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