Telenet is kindly hosting the event in their office Liersesteenweg 4, 2800 Mechelen with a nearby train station. The event will start at 10:00 and will finish by our usual networking drink around 17:00. For our 6th meeting, we will have a guest speaker: Jan Zorz from the Internet Society and also a key player […]
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Some of you have probably noticed this huge steps: more than 1 Belgian users out of 4 has IPv6 enabled by default and uses IPv6 to reach Google (see graph below). APnic labs also measures the same thing: It appears as mainly driven VOO (= Brutele), Telenet but also Belnet, Belgacom and EDPnet… and this […]
The 5th IPv6 Council Meeting took place on the 5th of June 2014. Belgacom was kind enough to host the meeting. We were about 35 people sharing experience, asking questions, pushing forward IPv6 in Belgium. After the meeting, we went for the usual ‘networking drink’ in a bar nearby. Please find below the slides.
Belgacom is hosting this meeting at their Paille location, rue Lebeaustraat 2, 1000 Brussels (parking available at Albertine and Central Station is 150m away). The agenda will be: 13:00 Welcome and agenda bashing – Eric Vyncke & Carl Wuyts 13:05 Host welcome – Belgacom 13:15 IPv6 Deployment Status in Belgium – Eric Vyncke 13:30 Belgacom […]
See the Dutch-only press release at: [http://hugin.info/136600/R/1770050/602301.pdf] but also [http://datanews.knack.be/ict/nieuws/telenet-rolt-ipv6-uit/article-4000564816836.htm] and [http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/archief/Telenet_en_Belgacom_bijna_klaar_voor_internet_der_dingen.9480227-1615.art?highlight=telenet]
For several years now, the Internet has faced difficulties to grow because of its success: too many computers, smartphones, tablets, … wanting to access the Internet. Engineers have worked to smoothly upgrade the Internet protocols and addresses to allow for an open, non-obstructive growing Internet. This new version is called IPv6 for IP version 6 […]
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2013: what a good year for IPv6!
2013 has been a great year for IPv6 in Belgium; especially for residential Internet Service Providers. After EDPnet, we saw VOO and Belgacom deploying IPv6 (and Telenet should be any time soon). By checking on January 2nd the Belgian IPv6 penetration number at [http://www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.html] => it is 4,95%, we missed the 5% mark by 0.05% […]
ISOC has just released their global IPv6 deployment numbers [http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/]. This measures per AS (= per ISP or per organization) the amount of traffic generated over IPv6 vs. global traffic. As expected, a huge amount of Universities or NRN (the local equivalent of Belnet for Belgium) are in the first positions. ISOC number is made […]
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Internet of Things (seminar)
On 19 November, DSP Valley, a cluster of European technology companies in the embedded space, and VeroTech, a consultancy company, organised a seminar on the Internet of Things, with specific focus on IPv6. For an audience of around one hundred technology experts, business decision makers, researchers and students, five embedded and network experts gave presentations […]
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4th IPv6 Council Meeting, slides and notes
4th IPv6 Council Meeting 11th of September 2013 Hosted by PWC in Brussels 20130911_IPv6_council_notes.pdf Notes taken by Eric Vyncke PWC Welcome, Dirk Van Droogenbroeck How does PWC handle IPv6 ? PWC has several departments and Dirk is part of the technology department (manage, transform, secure). IPv6 impacts those three focuses, so, the transition to IPv6 […]