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The Planet to Support IPv6.
2008-03-25, HostMan.biz The Planet plans to offer in late 2008 commercial transit services that support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol. IPv6 provides larger address space, built-in security, enhanced network management and new mobility features when compared to its predecessor, IPv4. The Planet isn't the first Web hosting company to support IPv6, but it is believed to be the largest in the United States to do so. Hurricane Electric of Fremont, Calif. already offers IPv6 and IPv4 transit services. The Planet will offer its hosting customers support for IPv6 and IPv4 simultaneously in what's called a dual-stack approach. "One of the reasons The Planet is doing IPv6 is that IPv4 address space is in short supply," says Stan Barber, vice president, network operations at The Planet. "If you're going to be serving content to customers over most Web environments today ... you need unique globally addressable space, especially if you're sending out video streams. Eventually, getting that on an IPv4-type of environment is going to be limited while all of this address space is going to be available on IPv6. If, for example, a manufacturing company who has a Web site wants to be able to tap into the future, they're going to have to make their Web site available on both IPv4 and IPv6." The Planet says it will offer IPv6 services in late 2008. It will run a beta program earlier this year. |
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