(Liberty Lake, WA) – April 11, 2011 – TierPoint, the premier carrier-class and carrier-neutral Data Center services provider in the Inland Northwest, has announced the launch of Internet Protocol Version 6, commonly known as IPv6. IPv6 is designed to succeed IPv4, which has been the standard on which the Internet and networks have run since 1981.
“As of February of this year (2011) IPv4 address space has been officially depleted,” says Dan Seliger, TierPoint’s CTO. “We don’t expect the need for IPv4 to go away immediately, but being ready for IPv6 this early is a positive for our customers.”
An Internet Protocol (IP) address is similar to a phone number; when you type the number into a browser (for an example, 66.45.162.142) a website will appear (in this case, www.tierpoint.com), or you’ll access a private network. IPv4 was deemed sufficient in the early design of the Internet. It provides an addressing capability of 232 addresses (approximately 4.3 billion addresses). In the 1990’s, it became clear that IPv4 would become exhausted quicker than anticipated. A new protocol, IPv6, was defined to provide an addressing capability of 2128 addresses (approximately 340 undecillion addresses, or 340 trillion groups of one trillion networks each). IPv6 will be supported alongside IPv4 for the foreseeable future as network providers make the transition.
“With the Internet growing as fast as it has the past few years, it is very logical to move to a 128-bit IP addressing scheme,” continued Seliger. “TierPoint has made a very concerted effort to put the hardware and software in place so that when our customers are ready to move to the new IP system, we will be there to support them. We’re very excited to be at the cutting edge of this transition and can provide the expertise required for a company to make the switch.”
If you’d like to know more about how TierPoint can help your company transition from IPv4 to IPv6, please contact them at (509) 688-2555.
About TierPoint
TierPoint has rapidly become the premier carrier-class and carrier-neutral Data Center services provider in the Inland Northwest. TierPoint empowers businesses with mission critical availability, security and reliability by offering a complete suite of best in class Data Center Services, including Cloud Computing, Colocation, Internet Bandwidth and Network Connectivity, Hosting, Managed Security and Compliance, and Data Backup and Restoration Services to customers throughout the region – allowing customers to leverage TierPoint’s infrastructure to optimize their business objectives. The TierPoint team holds several industry and vendor certifications from companies such as Cisco, Dell, VMWare, Fortinet, Aruba, eIQ and organizations such as ISC2, Microsoft, and CompTIA.
For more information on TierPoint, please contact us at (509) 688-2555, or visit our website at www.tierpoint.com.
