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6BONE
The 6bone is an IPv6 test-bed set-up to assist in the evolution and deployment of IPv6. It is an informal collaborative project covering North America, Europe, and Japan. The 6bone test-bed will be phased out on the 6th June 2006.
6DISS
6DISS is a two-and-a-half-year European project to provide IPv6 training and knowledge transfer to research networks in developing regions. It also aims to establish contacts with networking personnel and organisations in these regions, in order to encourage cooperation and possible future participation in European R&D activities. 6DISS builds on the IPv6 deployment experiences of the 6NET, Euro6IX and GÉANT projects, as well as the liaisons established with the IPv6 Forum, European IPv6 Task Force and IETF.
6NET
6NET was a three-and-a-half year European project to demonstrate that continued growth of the Internet can be met using new IPv6 technology. The project built a native IPv6-based network connecting sixteen countries in order to gain experience of IPv6 deployment and migration from existing IPv4-based networks. This was used to extensively test a variety of new IPv6 services and applications, as well as interoperability with legacy applications.
AAAA record
Also known as a 'quad A' record, this record maps a host name to an IPv6 address. The IETF has decided to use this record as for host name-to-IP address resolution.
Classless Inter-domain Routing, CIDR
CIDR (sometimes known as supernetting) is a way to allocate and specify the Internet addresses used in inter-domain routing more flexibly than with the original system of Internet Protocol (IP) address classes. As a result, the number of available Internet addresses has been greatly increased. CIDR is now the routing system used by virtually all gateway hosts on the Internet's backbone network. The Internet's regulating authorities now expect every Internet service provider (ISP) to use it for routing.
Euro6IX
Euro6IX is the largest research project up to now funded by the European Information Society Technologies Program (IST-2001-32161). The goal of the Euro6IX project is to support the rapid introduction of IPv6 in Europe.
GÉANT/GÉANT2
The GÉANT project was a collaboration between 26 National Research and Education Networks representing 30 countries across Europe, the European Commission, and DANTE. Its principal purpose was to develop the GÉANT network - a multi-gigabit pan-European data communications network, reserved specifically for research and education use. GÉANT is the name given to both the project and the network that emerged from it. GÉANT2, the successor project of GÉANT, now connects a total of 34 countries and continues to build on the state-of-the-art services provided by GÉANT.
General Packet Radio Service, GPRS
GPRS is a packet-based wireless communication service that promises data rates from 56 up to 114 Kbps and continuous connection to the Internet for mobile phone and computer users. GPRS is based on Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication and will complement existing services such as circuit-switched cellular phone connections and the Short Message Service (SMS).
Internet Engineering Task Force, IETF
The IETF is charged with developing and promoting Internet standards. It is an open, all-volunteer organization.
Internet Protocol, IP
The IP is used to route messages within an IP network. Every IP packet contains its own header. This provides the information that allows the packet to reach its destination. IP packets can vary in size, providing great flexibility in transporting traffic and maximising use of the available bandwidth.
IP address
An IP address is a 32-bit number (in the case of IPv4) or a 128-bit number (in the case of IPv6) that identifies every sender or receiver of information that is sent in packets across the Internet.
Internet Protocol Security, IPSec
IPSec is a set of protocols, developed by the IETF to support secure exchange of packets at the IP layer.
IPv6 Forum
The IPv6 Forum is a worldwide consortium of leading Internet vendors, Research & Education Networks. Their mission is to promote IPv6 by dramatically improving the market and user awareness of IPv6, creating a quality and secure Next Generation Internet and allowing world-wide equitable access to knowledge and technology, embracing a moral responsibility to the world. The Internet Engineering Task Force has sole authority for IPv6 protocol standards. The IPv6 Forum reserves the right to develop IPv6 Deployment Guides to foster the operational use of IPv6.
IPv6 over dedicated data links
The technique enables IPv6 domains to communicate by using the same Layer 2 infrastructure used for IPv4 but with IPv6 using separate Frame Relay or ATM Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVCs), separate optical links or dense wave division multiplexing (DWDM).
IPv6 over dual-stack
This technique allows IPv6 and IPv4 applications to coexist in a dual IP layer routing backbone. All routers, or a portion of them, in the network would need to be upgraded to be dual stack, with IPv4 communication using the IPv4 protocol stack and IPv6 communication using the IPv6 stack.
IPv6 over IPv4 tunnels
Tunnels encapsulate the IPv6 traffic within the IPv4 packets. They are primarily for communication between isolated IPv6 sites or connection to remote IPv6 networks over an IPv4 backbone. The techniques include using manually configured tunnels, generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnels, semiautomatic tunnel mechanisms such as tunnel broker services and fully automatic tunnel mechanisms such as 6to4 for the WAN and intra-site automatic tunnel addressing protocol (ISATAP) for the campus environment.
IPv6 over MPLS backbones
The technique allows isolated IPv6 domains to communicate with each other, but over an MPLS IPv4 backbone, without modifying the core infrastructure.
Internet Service Provider, ISP
An ISP (Internet service provider) is a company that provides individuals and other companies access to the Internet and other related services such as Web site building and virtual hosting. An ISP has the equipment and the telecommunication line access required to have a point-of-presence on the Internet for the geographic area served.
Multicast
Multicast is communication between a single sender and multiple receivers on a network. Typical uses include the updating of mobile personnel from a home office and the periodic issuance of online newsletters. Multicast is one of the packet types in the IPv6.
Network Address Translation, NAT
NAT is the translation of an Internet Protocol address used within one network to a different IP address known within another network. One network is designated the inside network and the other is the outside. Typically, a company maps its local inside network addresses to one or more global outside IP addresses and un-maps the global IP addresses on incoming packets back into local IP addresses. This helps ensure security since each outgoing or incoming request must go through a translation process that also offers the opportunity to qualify or authenticate the request or match it to a previous request. NAT also conserves on the number of global IP addresses that a company needs and it lets the company use a single IP address in its communication with the world.
Peer-to-Peer applications
Peer-to-peer is a communications model in which every party has the same capabilities and either party can initiate a communication session.
Quality of Service, QoS
QoS is a networking term that specifies a guaranteed throughput level.
Requests for Comment, RFC
The Requests for Comments (RFC) document series is a set of technical and organizational notes about the Internet (originally the ARPANET), beginning in 1969. Memos in the RFC series discuss many aspects of computer networking, including protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, as well as meeting notes, opinions.
Router
A router is a device or, in some cases, software in a computer, that determines the next network point to which a packet should be forwarded toward its destination. The router is connected to at least two networks and decides which way to send each information packet based on its current understanding of the state of the networks it is connected to.
Routing Table
A router may create or maintain a table (called a routing table) of the available routes and their conditions and use this information along with distance and cost algorithms to determine the best route for a given packet.
Third Generation Communications, 3G
3G is the generic term used for the next generation of mobile communications systems. The new systems will enhance the services available today and offer multimedia and Internet access and the ability to view video footage.
Virtual Private Network, VPN
VPN is a way to use a public telecommunication infrastructure, such as the Internet, to provide remote offices or individual users with secure access to their organization's network.
Voice over IP, VoIP
VoIP (that is, voice delivered using the Internet Protocol) is a term used in IP telephony for a set of facilities for managing the delivery of voice information using the Internet Protocol (IP). In general, this means sending voice information in digital form in discrete packets rather than in the traditional circuit-committed protocols of the public switched telephone network (PSTN). A major advantage of VoIP and Internet telephony is that it avoids the tolls charged by ordinary telephone service.
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