EARLY ADOPTERS

IPv6 helps university go green: Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus.  

Google says IPv6 is easy, not expensive: Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company's applications to support IPv6. “We can provide all Google services over IPv6,” said Google network engineer Lorenzo Colitti during an IETF meeting earlier this year. Colitti said a “small, core team” spent 18 months enabling IPv6, from the initial network architecture and software engineering work, through a pilot phase, until Google over IPv6 was made publicly available.  

AT&T builds $23M IPv6 network for U.S. military: AT&T is building a production-quality IPv6 data network for the U.S. Army in Germany that will cost approximately $23 million when it is completed next year. AT&T is installing and testing a new campus data network, which will support Army personnel at 600 JMTC buildings. AT&T says the installation will be complete in January 2010.  

Nation's largest IPv6 network welcomes rivals: Hurricane Electric claims to be the No. 1 IPv6 backbone in the world in terms of the number of IPv6 networks that it peers with and the number of IPv6 routes that it announces. It's about to get a lot more company as the IPv4 depletion date gets nearer (speaking of which, the ISP now offers ).