8th June 2011: IPv6 Day

June 8, large organizations will come together to enable IPv6 on their main websites for 24 hours. This event is sponsored by the Internet Society to motivate the industry to prepare their services for IPv6.
Today, Orange Business Services offers its main site accessible over IPv6.

why IPv6 ?

Today’s widely deployed Internet protocol (IPv4) relies on a limited and finite number of unique IP addresses (4 billion); at the current utilization rate, these addresses will run out in 2011.
A new version of the IP protocol (version 6 or v6) was created in the 1990’s to solve this foreseen resource depletion and provide an almost infinite source of addresses: 3.4x1038 IP addresses or 5x1028 addresses for every person on Earth.

essentially –IPv6 won't run out

the role of the World IPv6 Day

Despite the availability of IPv6 for the past decade, a smooth transition of IPv4 to IPv6 has not occurred. The World IPv6 Day is a strong incentive to motivate industry players to support the new protocol and to ensure their systems are prepared for the transition. For the first time, players from all parts of the industry will be able to work towards the common goal of enabling IPv6. The World IPv6 Day acts as well as a global scale test, and one of its goals is to expose potential issues under controlled conditions. This is the reason

Orange Business Services
As global provider, Orange Business Services participates actively in the IPv6 adoption. Since 2009, we offer to our customers IPv6 connectivity on our MPLS VPN and Internet Services. Our IPv6 service is designed to facilitate the IPv6 introduction and smooth transition. Our IPv6 VPN is available from + 130 countries.
Through our IPv6 Consulting offer, we help our customers to determine their IPv6 plan, their business opportunities and exposure. We can help them to assess their business applications and infrastructure, in order to be prepared and make their infrastructure evolved for current and future needs of any IPv6 deployment.

Today, Orange Business Services offers its main site over IPv6.