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IPv6 Buzz
IPv6 Buzz is for network engineers and infrastructure pros adopting IPv6 or who want to learn more about the protocol. Hosts Ed Horley, Tom Coffeen, and Nick Buraglio demystify IPv6’s intricacies and deliver practical insights in a conversational style that explain the how and why of implementation. They’ve literally written the books about IPv6 and routinely consult on public, private, and federal deployments. IPv6 Buzz is an essential podcast for building your knowledge, confidence, and…
Episodes
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IPv6 Buzz 092: Listener Questions – NAT66, Stable IPv6 Prefix Delegation And More!
In the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz, we tackle the first listener questions of the year (well, really left over from the end of 2021 but still good ones!)…
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IPv6 Buzz 91: Thanks For Listening To IPv6 Buzz In 2021!
In this episode we discuss presentations at the recent UK IPv6 Council meeting. More importantly, we say thanks to you, our listeners, for keeping IPv6 Buzz in…
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IPv6 Buzz 90: IPv6 Unique Local Addresses (ULAs) And You
In this episode Ed, Scott, and Tom chat about Unique Local Addresses (ULAs), what they are, how they are used, when (or if) you should use them in your…
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IPv6 Buzz 089: An IPv6 Deployathon With AFRINIC
In this IPv6 Buzz episode, Tom and Ed chat with Mukom Tamon, AFRINIC's head of capacity building, about IPv6 Deployathon events and how Mukom and AFRINIC are…
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IPv6 Buzz 088: Host OS IPv6 Addresses – What’s Up With That?
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz we chat about IPv6 addresses on host OSes: the different types, how they are formed, what they look like, how to tell them apart…
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IPv6 Buzz 087: How Merit Network Used Carrots Over Sticks To Drive IPv6 Adoption
Merit Network is a non-profit ISP that provides network and security services for universities, K-12 schools, libraries, and other educational communities in…
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IPv6 Buzz 086: E-Commerce And Holiday Shopping With IPv6!
As the holiday shopping season fast approaches, the IPv6 Buzz crew dive into IPv6 in relation to e-commerce.
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IPv6 Buzz 085: Is Your Network Ready For IPv6?
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, we discuss IPv6 network readiness assessments, what they should include, and some helpful ideas for where to start.
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IPv6 Buzz 084: Wi-Fi 6E Adoption And IPv6
In this episode of IPv6 Buzz, we compare IPv6 adoption to Wi-Fi 6E adoption (and talk about IPv6 Wi-Fi at large) with guest Tom Hollingsworth of Gestalt IT and…
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IPv6 Buzz 083: The IPv6 Interface Identifier
In this IPv6 Buzz podcast episode we geek out about the IPv6 Interface Identifier (IID, i.e., the lower 64 bits of an IPv6 address reserved for interface…
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IPv6 Buzz 082: All About Allocations
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast we discuss IPv6 allocations, which are critical to successful IPv6 adoption. Topics include allocation sizing, address planning…
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IPv6 Buzz 081: App Development And IPv6
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, hosts Ed and Tom speak with Richard Campbell all about app development and IPv6, including challenges developers face with the…
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IPv6 Buzz 080: Working With IPv6 In The Management Plane
On today's IPv6 Buzz, Ed and Scott talk about IPv6 in the management plane with network engineers Nick Buraglio and Chris Cummings, including management…
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IPv6 Buzz 079: IPv6 In The Data Center
In this week's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we explore IPv6 in the data center with guest Jeff Tantsura. Jeff is formerly head of Network Strategy with Juniper/Apstra…
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IPv6 Buzz 078: IPv6 For Small And Medium-Sized Businesses
IPv6 isn't just for large enterprises. In today's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Scott, and Tom makes the case for small and medium-sized businesses embracing the…
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IPv6 Buzz 077: Revisiting World IPv6 Launch With Tim Martin
In this week's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss the 9th anniversary of World IPv6 Launch (and the 10th anniversary of World IPv6 Day) with Cisco…
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IPv6 Buzz 076: Even More Listener Questions!
Where does IPv6 fit in to the Zero Trust model of network security? What are the considerations when deploying IPv6 on a global network with lots of firewalls?…
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IPv6 Buzz 075: Why Wells Fargo Bought Into IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom chat with John Burns, a lead architect at Wells Fargo, about the relatively early adoption of IPv6 at the…
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IPv6 Buzz 074: IPv6 And Public VPN Services
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss the state of public VPN services and IPv6 with Tomislav Čohar, principal architect at, and…
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IPv6 Buzz 073: Exploring Microsoft’s IPv6 History
This week's IPv6 Buzz episode features Justine Vick, network architect and engineer and Microsoft veteran whose IPv6 work dates back to the earliest inclusion…
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IPv6 Buzz 072: NIST And Testing IPv6 Interoperability
Today's IPv6 Buzz guest, Doug Montgomery, is manager of Internet and scalable systems research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…
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IPv6 Buzz 071: IPv6 And SD-WAN
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss how IPv6 fits into the SD-WAN picture and some of the considerations of deploying IPv6 with this…
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IPv6 Buzz 070: Building An IPv6 Lab, Revisited
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed, Scott, and Tom follow up on episode 44 and talk more about what it takes to build an IPv6 lab—both dual-stack and…
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IPv6 Buzz 069: IPv6 And LACNIC In Latin America
Latin America boasts impressive growth in IPv6 adoption. In today's podcast we speak with Alejandro Acosta, Innovation and Development Engineer at Latin…
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IPv6 Buzz 068: Addressing The New Federal IPv6-Only Mandate
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about the likely impacts of the latest IPv6 mandate from the federal government, which directs that…
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IPv6 Buzz 067: IPv6 In The Cloud With Ivan PepeInjak
Today's IPv6 Buzz episode examines the state of IPv6 in the public cloud, including capabilities and limitations with current v6 support in AWS and Azure…
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IPv6 Buzz 066: Is IPv6 Baked Enough?
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast tackles the question of IPv6 maturity, how much change we might expect to the protocol going forward, the standards process, and…
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IPv6 Buzz 065: Understanding Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) And IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Tom talk discuss the impact that service provider deployment of Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) has had on the overall…
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IPv6 Buzz 064: The Ghosts Of IPv6
Today's IPv6 Buzz explores some of the RFCs and vendor technologies that didn't quite make it as IPv6 evolved.
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IPv6 Buzz 063: Revisiting IPv6-Only
In this week's episode Ed, Scott, and Tom revisit the topic of IPv6-only and discuss its current state in service provider networks, in the data center, and…
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IPv6 Buzz 062: Reviewing DNS Flag Day 2020
DNS Flag Day is a community effort by service providers and DNS software vendors to address DNS issues. In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Scott speak…
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IPv6 Buzz 061: Weird And Wacky IPv6 Addressing
In this week's IPv6 Buzz podcast, Ed, Scott, and Tom talk about some of the weird things they've seen folks do with IPv6 addresses. IPv6 is different than IPv4…
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IPv6 Buzz 060: Why the Internet Needs IPv6 – With Special Guest Vint Cerf
In this week's episode Ed, Scott, Tom, and guest host Greg Ferro talk to Vint Cerf about why the Internet needs IPv6, and whether the Internet is in danger of…
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IPv6 Buzz 059: More Listener Questions Asked And Answered
The IPv6 Buzz crew answers listener questions on today's episode, including use cases for Network Prefix Translation v6, challenges of asymmetric routing in…
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IPv6 Buzz 058: Tackling IPv6 Access Challenges
In this week's episode Ed, Scott, and Tom talk to Nico Schottelius, CEO of Ungleiich Glarus, a Swiss IT services company that has developed a VPN IPv6 IoT…
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IPv6 Buzz 057: Thinking Differently With IPv6
What do novice engineers need to know about IPv6? How can v6 help you rethink customer solutions? What will networking look like in 20 years? Today's IPv6 Buzz…
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IPv6 Buzz 056: What’s The Deal With NAT64?
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Tom speak with Sander Steffann to get his expert take on NAT64, an important IPv6 transition technology. We also delve…
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IPv6 Buzz 055: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of IPv6 With Geoff Huston
We discuss the challenges and opportunities of IPv6 with Geoff Huston, APNIC's chief scientist and network analyst nonpareil. Topics include how dual-stack and…
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IPv6 Buzz 054: How (Not) To Mess Up Your IPv6 Deployment!
In this week's episode Ed, Scott, and Tom draw on their years of (sometimes painful) experience in deploying IPv6 to offer some practical guidance on how not…
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IPv6 Buzz 053: Applications And IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Scott and Tom discuss applications and IPv6 with Dan York. They also talk to Dan about his role at the Internet Society and…
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IPv6 Buzz 052: What Do Network Engineers Need To Know About IPv6?
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast examines key topics network engineers should know when working with v6, including the complexities of auto-addressing, network…
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IPv6 Buzz 051: How The Work-From-Home Movement Affects IPv6 And The Internet
The IPv6 Buzz crew examine how the recent increase in working from home have affected Internet traffic as a whole--and IPv6 in particular. Will recent…
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IPv6 Buzz 050: How To Get Network Engineers To Prioritize IPv6
Packet Pushers co-founders Ethan Banks and Greg Ferro join the 50th episode of IPv6 Buzz to talk about why network engineers haven't prioritized IPv6, and how…
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IPv6 Buzz 049: IPv6 and Renumbering
In this week's episode Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss one of IT networking's biggest challenges, IP renumbering, and how IPv6 impacts (and is impacted by) it…
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IPv6 Buzz 048: From Learning To Teaching IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, we discuss the path from learning IPv6 to teaching it with Nicole Wajer, a Technical Solution Architect at Cisco and a…
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IPv6 Buzz 047: End-User And Client Wireless IPv6
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Tom discuss deploying end-user wireless IPv6 with Charlie Clemmer, a principal network engineer with HPE/Aruba and…
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IPv6 Buzz 046: Managing Networks With IPv6 And NAT64
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, we talk to Cody Christman about managing networks with IPv6 using the critical transition/translation technology NAT64. We…
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IPv6 Buzz 045: Fine-Tuning IPv6 Adoption Strategies For Service Providers And Enterprises
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast discusses global IPv6 adoption strategy with Pete Sclafani of 6connect, a global network automation platform for service providers…
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IPv6 Buzz 044: Building An IPv6 Lab
The best way to learn IPv6 is to get it into the lab and play with it. On today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we share advice, learnings, and tips on building a lab and…
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IPv6 Buzz 043: Let’s Explore IPv6 Router Advertisements!
In this week's IPv6 Buzz episode, Ed and Tom talk in depth about IPv6 Router Advertisements (or RAs), what they are, what they do, and why they're critical to…
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IPv6 Buzz 042: Why Wireless Is A Smart Place To Start With IPv6
If you're looking for a way to bring IPv6 into your environment, the WLAN may be your best bet. Find out why in the latest episode of IPv6 Buzz with guest…
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IPv6 Buzz 041: IPv4 Address Exhaustion And You!
The Regional Internet Registry for Europe (RIPE) recently announced its supply of public IPv4 addresses was officially depleted. In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast…
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IPv6 Buzz 040: What We’re Thankful For With IPv6
From the virtually limitless supply of IPv6 addressing to good vendor support to IPv6-only efforts and beyond, Ed, Scott, and Tom discuss what they’re most…
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IPv6 Buzz 039: Bringing IPv6 Into Enterprise Wireless
This week's IPv6 Buzz discusses getting IPv6 into enterprise wireless environments. We discuss what proper vendor support for v6 looks like, evaluate the…
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IPv6 Buzz 038: IPv6 In The Federal Government
Today's episode explores how the US federal government views IPv6 adoption. We also explore the use of IPv6 by the U.S. Department of Defense, including…
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IPv6 Buzz 037: Understanding And Working With IPv6 Special Addresses
Today's IPv6 Buzz dives into IPv6 special addresses--what they are, how they're used in production, potential issues, and more.
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IPv6 Buzz 036: IPv4 Special Addresses And IPv6 Adoption
In this IPv6 Buzz episode we discuss IPv4 special address ranges, the reasons behind efforts to make them globally routable, and what impact this is likely to…
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IPv6 Buzz 035: Selling Your IPv4 Addresses For Fun And Profit
Your IPv4 addresses are a financial asset because the market for v4 address space is rising. The question is, for how long? Guest Lee Howard joins the IPv6…
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IPv6 Buzz 034: Why AWS Embraces IPv6
AWS regards IPv6 as a key mechanism to enable customer agility, and to meet rising demands from new applications and devices, particularly IoT. In this…
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IPv6 Buzz 033: ARIN’s Role In IPv6 Address Allocation
ARIN is the official network numbers register for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, as well as ASNs, for North America. The IPv6 Buzz crew talk with Mark Kosters…