[April 11, 2012]

IPv6 Evangelist Owen DeLong to Address the 2012 North American IPv6 Summit

Hurricane Electric, the world's largest IPv6 Internet backbone and leading colocation provider, today announced that its IPv6 Evangelist, Owen DeLong, will lead a comprehensive discussion of IPv6 address planning for network administrators today at 3:30 p.m. at the 2012 North American IPv6 Summit.

Mr. DeLong's presentation, titled Address Planning - Trials without Tribulations, will cover how large of an IPv6 address space an Internet Service Provider (ISP) should request from its Regional Internet Registry (RIR) and how best to divide this IPv6 address space among its end users. In his presentation, Mr. DeLong will assert that the general rule that all ISPs should get /32 networks and that all end users should get /48 networks is merely a guideline that does not apply to all situations.

During his talk, Mr. DeLong will note that an ISP can receive from its RIR an Pv6 address space allocation larger than /32 if a rational justification is presented. DeLong will discuss how to determine the proper size of the requested address space by leveraging a formula that considers the number of end sites served by the ISP's largest Point of Presence (PoP) and the number of PoPs involved. DeLong will also discuss the merits of aligning network requests along nibble boundaries.

After discussing address-space requisition from RIRs, DeLong will discuss two methodologies for dividing the address space among end users: "Sequential Allocation" and "Allocation by Bisection."

"I look forward to sharing my expertise on how the interested parties can break through the numbers game," said Owen DeLong (News - Alert). "With the World IPv6 Launch right around the corner, this presentation will be timely and enable attendees to have a numbers plan in place before it's too late."

In addition to being Hurricane Electric's (News - Alert) IPv6 Evangelist, Mr. DeLong oversees Hurricane Electric's Professional Services Division, which has helped a number of enterprises seamlessly roll out IPv6 onto their networks.

About Hurricane Electric

Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by number of networks connected. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to 52 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 2,100 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the U.S. and Europe, and rings in Europe and Asia. In addition to its vast global network, Hurricane Electric owns and operates two data centers in Fremont, California - including Fremont2, its newest 200,000 square-foot facility. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection at speeds exceeding 10 Gbps.

For additional information on Hurricane Electric, please visit http://www.he.net.

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