The news from Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) last year that its IPv4 free address pool has depleted served as a wake-up call for enterprises that were asleep for the past decade during the industry’s collective call to arms forIPv6 migration</>. As enterprises evaluate the best strategy formoving to IPv6</>, Silver Peak Systems CTO David Hughes believes that an IPv6 trend will form in 2012, moving the Internet Protocol version 6 from vision to roadmap. He and other experts believe IPv6 strategies will be put into motion in 2012. Enterprises are demanding network vendors and telecom services to support IPv6. And while most enterprises are a long way away from deploying IPv6, some are being forced to move toIPv6 now</> -- especially in Asia, where IPv4 addresses have already been depleted from its Regional Internet Registry (RIR>), Hughes said.

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