| Test bed, task force will promote IPv6 | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Monday, October 20, 2003 - 03:26 PM | |||
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Six military sites have connected to the nation’s largest native IPv6 network, which will serve as a test bed for the usability of Internet Protocol Version 6. | ||
| Maj. Roswell Dixon of the Army’s Joint Interoperability Test Command at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., said the project was “groundbreaking for the Defense Department’s move to IPv6. This is the first time we’ve had representation from all the services” in a test of the new protocols.
The network, named Moonv6, is a collaborative effort by JITC, the North American IPv6 Task Force and the University of New Hampshire’s Interoperability Laboratory. Moonv6 has been in the planning stages for about six months, and the first phase is now complete; a second phase will begin in February. Much of the multimillion-dollar cost has been covered by in-kind contributions from participants. Click here to read the complete article. |
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