Bechtel has been testing Vistas IPv6 capabilities since January and so far likes what it sees. In fact, the engineering-services giant plans to require the operating system for all new computer purchases by the end of the year.
When you have a fundamental change like IPv6, its not something you can do overnight, says Fred Wettling, manager of IT standards and strategies for Bechtel. Forklift upgrades are not a good thing. We need to make this [transition to IPv6] gradual.
Wettling recommends that other network executives get started with IPv6 testing immediately.
Its already too late to get started, he warns. IT executives really need to take a look at what the behavior of IPv6 is on their network from a security standpoint. They need to get to that point as quickly as possible to start the process of determining that all of their applications are IP-version agnostic.
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