Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) is an extension of the IPv6 architecture that enables the insertion of routing instructions, known as segments, directly into IPv6 headers. This standards-based ...

Segment routing is a modern source-routing architecture that is being developed within the IETF. Traditional IP routing uses destination-based hop-by-hop forwarding. Each intermediate router decides ...

We found that the support for IPv6 management, IPv6 routing, and service-provider IPv6 features varied quite widely among the vendor’s solutions. We found that all of these products would be suitable ...

You may be pretty familiar with Segment Routing and I bet you’re likely tying it to MPLS as the industry at large has been mainly focused on driving awareness and adoption of MPLS Segment Routing. But ...

Packed with diagrams and illustrations, this book discusses those protocols that are found in more capable IPv6 devices, are commonly deployed in more complex IPv6 network environments, or are not ...

A feature slipped into the IPv6 protocol because of political, rather than technical, considerations and has, perhaps unsurprisingly, come back to haunt the IPv6 working group. It also caused a recent ...

If there’s any enterprise UTM firewall that’s ready to be used to support IPv6, the Nokia IP290 running Nokia’s IPSO operating system and Check Point’s VPN-1 firewall software is definitely it. If ...

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