IPv6 Deployment and Management by Michael Dooley

TIMOTHY ROONEY managed the engineering development and market introduction of BT Diamond IP's four next-generation IP management systems: NetControl, IPControl, Sapphire Appliances, and ImageControl. Prior to joining the team, he was president and CEO of Diamond IP Technologies vice president of operations for the VitalSoft line of software products at Lucent Technologies and Vice President of Engineering at Quadritek Systems. MICHAEL DOOLEY is responsible for overall operations of the BT Diamond IP division. IPv6 Deployment and Management is a must-read for IP network engineers, managers, and those who work in Information Technology. In addition, it details strategies and techniques for assessing the impact of deploying IPv6 on a network, discovering current IP assets, assessing IPv6 readiness, creating a plan to deploy IPv6 while considering addressing security and network management impacts, and managing a dual protocol IPv4-IPv6 network. It discusses why organizations-even those with adequate IPv4 space-should consider IPv6 deployment from a business perspective. IPv6 Deployment and Management describes the IPv6 protocol in detail, as well as technologies for interworking IPv4 and IPv6. Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6)-the new IP version intended to ultimately succeed IPv4-will expand the addressing capacity of the Internet to support the explosive growth of users and devices on the Internet as well as add flexibility to allocating addresses and efficiency for routing traffic.

The growth of the Internet has created a need for more addresses than are available with Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)-the protocol currently used to direct almost all Internet traffic. A guide for understanding, deploying, and managing Internet Protocol version 6

IPv6 Deployment and Management by Michael Dooley