by Silvia Hagen
It's official: with IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technical—and nontechnical—steps involved. Many of the challenges for your enterprise are on the organizational level, and solutions differ from company to company.
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Description
IPv6 Essentials author Silvia Hagen, a protocol analysis and directory service expert who's worked with IPv6 international groups and forums for over 10 years, supplies answers to the issues most frequently discussed by the clients she consults. With this guide, IPv6 project leaders and planning team members learn how to develop a cohesive integration strategy for building the next-generation network.
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Make a business case by focusing on the opportunities IPv6 offers |
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Create a high level design and conduct a network assessment |
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Develop a plan for evaluating vendors and products, and building labs and testing |
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Understand routing protocol choices, security designs, and DNS issues |
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Discover how to create an IPv6 address plan and manage IPv6 addresses |
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Learn the available integration and transition technologies, and the scenarios they cover |
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Chapter 1: The Business Case |
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Chapter 2: Planning for IPv6 |
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Chapter 3: Integration and Transition Technologies |
About this book
Many of the challenges you will face are more on the non-technical organizational level. Working with large enterprises for many years I know how difficult it can sometimes be to get all different IT groups on one table and even have them talk and listen to each other. And this is excactly what you will have to do for the planning for IPv6. The book covers IPv6 specific topics so you understand what is involved in the process, what questions you will have to ask in order to develop a high level strategy. Planning for a successful integration is more about asking the right questions than to find quick answers.
What this book will not give you is a "one-size-fits-all" strategy. As you will understand after reading this book is that there is not one single best way to do it, that would fit every organization. Each network is different, each organization is unique, and there are so many different aspects playing into the planning, that each path from today's IPv4-dominant network to an IPv6-dominant network is unique also.
Who should read this book
This book is written for anyone that is interested in learning how to best plan for the integration of IPv6 in an enterprise. The larger the network, the more complex the task, as every single network component is affected by adding a new transport protocol. You don't have to be a technical freak to love this book (although I hope you also love it if you are one). It is more about what it takes to introduce IPv6 in an enterprise, written for CTOs, decision makers, IT managers, for the people who architect and design networks and for people who will be leading IPv6 projects, as well as for all the people who work on the planning team.
Chapter 1, The Business Case
This chapter discusses the business case and has two target groups. You may be insecure because of all the contradicting information you hear and about the common belief that IPv6 has no business case. I discuss this question in a larger context which usually resolves the contradictions. This can also be helpful for you if you know that introducing IPv6 is business critical, but you need arguments to convince your boss or your business partners. An important part of this chapter is about the opportunities IPv6 offers. Instead of focusing on the pains and potential risks of IPv6 it is much more helpful to understand the opportunities in order to make best use of the potential. You are building your next generation network after all.
Chapter 2, Planning for IPv6
This chapter covers the planning, starting with tasks that should be performed in advance, to creating a high level design and conducting a network assessment, how to evaluate vendors and products, and how to build labs and test. It also describes some general decisions that you will have to take when defining your high level implementation plan, such as routing protocol choices, security designs, DNS issues to understand, how to create an IPv6 address plan and how to manage IPv6 addresses.
Chapter 3, Integration and Transition Technologies
This chapter provides a high level overview of the available integration and transition technologies. It is not intended to be an indepth technical guide. The technologies are described in an overview so you understand what is available and in which scenario to use these mechanisms.
