Verio announces Web hosting for IPv6

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: CAROLYN DUFFY MARSAN'S ISP NEWS REPORT
06/08/05
Today's focus: Verio announces Web hosting for IPv6

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* Verio is one of first top-tier ISP to offer product app that
  supports IPv6
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Today's focus: Verio announces Web hosting for IPv6

By Carolyn Duffy Marsan

Verio, a division of NTT Communications, is now offering a Web
hosting platform and managed Web hosting services that support
IPv6, the next generation of the Internet's main communications
protocol.

Verio is among the first top-tier ISPs to offer a Web-enabled
production application that supports IPv6, experts of the
communications protocol say.

This announcement shows "leadership from NTT/Verio within the
IPv6 deployment arena," says Jim Bound, CTO of the IPv6 Forum
and Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force. "This is very
significant because it will provide a production Web-enabled
application to users from a [service provider], from a
production IPv6 network, as opposed to a network pilot...or
academic network."

Developed by the IETF, IPv6 promises easier administration,
tighter security and an enhanced addressing scheme when compared
to IPv4, the Internet's current protocol. IPv6, which uses a
128-bit addressing scheme, supports a virtually limitless number
of uniquely identified systems on the 'Net, while IPv4 supports
only a few billion systems because it uses a 32-bit addressing
scheme.

Although IPv6 was finalized a decade ago, the technology is just
beginning to attract the attention of enterprise customers in
the U.S. The U.S. Defense Department is one of the first and
largest organizations to commit to IPv6 migration. Other early
adopters include Defense contractors and high-tech equipment
vendors such as Cray and Juniper.

Bounds says Verio's announcement: "ratifies that IPv6 is ready
for production use, even though we still have additional
technology and tools to implement for IPv6. We do not have to
have all the functions we need for IPv6 to begin production
deployment."

Verio's IPv6-enabled Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Managed
Private Server (MPS) offerings allow users to set up Web sites
with IPv6 addresses. Verio already offers IPv6 access services
including native, tunneling and dual-stack gateway services
between IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.

"This is our first major application that we've migrated to
IPv6," says Cody Christman, director of product engineering for
Verio. "It's a very significant application for us to port to
IPv6."

Verio will charge $140 per month for the base level Web hosting
service, which will be supported by a NTT data center in Tokyo.
Verio says it will support the application from a U.S.-based
data center in 2006.

In the meantime, latency will not be an issue for U.S.
customers, Christman says. "Performance is pretty quick," he
adds.

Verio has been offering IPv6-enabled Web hosting services since
March. Initial customers are all companies based in Asia, where
IPv6 is more popular than it is in the U.S.

The company points out that it is running the new IPv6-enabled
Web hosting service over its main backbone network.

"Verio doesn't view IPv6 as a separate network or an R&D
network," Christman says. "Our network is IPv6. Our backbone is
IPv6. This is not a parallel offering."

The carrier was the first ISP to offer IPv6 access services in
the U.S. Its customers include Juniper Networks and UltraDNS.

Verio plans to offer additional IPv6 services this year
including an application called M-2-MX that automatically
encrypts IPv6 traffic and a managed router service that takes
advantage of the built-in security available with IPv6. Verio
also plans to offer off-net tunneling for customers to get to
Verio's IPv6 backbone from other ISP networks. Verio currently
offers this capability but needs to turn it into a commercial
product.

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Carolyn Duffy Marsan is a senior editor with Network World and
covers emerging Internet technologies and standards. Reach her
at <mailto:cmarsan@nww.com>
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