Conference Highlights: HEANet 2003

At the recent HEAnet Conference
in Kilkenny (6th and 7th November 2003) Mícheál Ó Foghlú of the TSSG
was invited by the organising committee to present on the TSSG's
experiences in WIT on the use of the next generation Internet protocol
IPv6.


HEAnet manage the Irish national academic computer network. The
presentation covered the deployment of IPv6 within the TSSG research
group itself as a fundamental part of its infrastructure (this makes
WIT one of the first organisations in Ireland to have a working IPv6
infrastructure), including links to an external TSSG server hosted in
the UK. The presentation also covered the TSSG's involvement in a
number of projects with an IPv6 element:

M-Zones,

Torrent,

Intermon,

Opium,

Converge,

and the newly funded EU Sixth Framework project: SEINIT.



IPv6 has many advantages over the existing Internet protocol IPv4,
primarily the much larger address space and the potential for
auto-configuration, both very important for mobile networks. The TSSG
sees IPv6 as a core part of the emerging mobile Internet and is
committed to playing a leadership role in the adoption and deployment
of IPv6 in Ireland.