

IPv6 Buzz
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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 expertise in working in this increasingly important domain.
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Feb 11, 2021 • 36min
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 America's Regional Internet Registry, LACNIC, to find out how the region is achieving its deployments.

Jan 28, 2021 • 59min
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 80% of each fed network be IPv6-only by 2025. Our guest is Nick Buraglio. Nick is a network architect and technical analyst with the Energy Sciences Network and has decades of experience working in and on government nets.

Jan 14, 2021 • 52min
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, ongoing customer demand for v4, and more. Our guest is Ivan Pepelnjak.

Dec 10, 2020 • 46min
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 more. Our guest is Russ White, Infrastructure Architect at Juniper Networks. Russ is an author, speaker, and chairs two IETF working groups.

Nov 26, 2020 • 51min
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 adoption of IPv6. Our guests are Kevin Myers and Nick Russo. Kevin and Nick have both worked with CGN and IPv6, and Nick is designing an IPv6 training course on Pluralsight.

Nov 12, 2020 • 33min
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.

Oct 29, 2020 • 33min
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 even to the desktop.

Oct 15, 2020 • 41min
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 with guest Andrew Wertkin about the DNS flag day for 2020, which took place October 1st. They discuss what this year's DNS Flag Day addressed, plus DNS behavior that listeners should look for that might indicate they aren’t current with their DNS settings and configurations.

Oct 1, 2020 • 41min
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 in many ways but the endless supply of IPv6 addresses yields endlessly crazy ways to use them.

Sep 18, 2020 • 51min
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 fragmenting along political lines and the impacts of that fragmentation. Vint is Google's chief Internet evangelist and the co-creator, with Bob Khan, of the Internet Protocol.


