If your organization is gearing up for IPv6, this in-depth book provides the practical information and guidance you need to plan for, design, and implement this vastly improved protocol. Author Silvia Hagen takes system and network administrators, engineers, and network designers through the technical details of IPv6 features and functions, and provides options for those who need to integrate IPv6 with their current IPv4 infrastructure.

The flood of Internet-enabled devices has made migrating to IPv6 a paramount concern worldwide. In this updated edition, Hagen distills more than ten years of studying, working with, and consulting with enterprises on IPv6. It's the only book of its kind.

IPv6 Essentials covers: Address architecture, header structure, and the ICMPv6 message formatIPv6 mechanisms such as Neighbor Discovery, Stateless Address autoconfiguration, and Duplicate Address detectionNetwork-related aspects and services: Layer 2 support, Upper Layer Protocols, and ChecksumsIPv6 security: general practices, IPSec basics, IPv6 security elements, and enterprise security modelsTransitioning to IPv6: dual-stack operation, tunneling, and translation techniquesMobile IPv6: technology for a new generation of mobile servicesPlanning options, integration scenarios, address plan, best practices, and dos and don'ts

It's official: with IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technical - and nontechnical - steps involved. Many of the challenges for your enterprise are on the organizational level, and solutions differ from company to company. IPv6 Essentials author Silvia Hagen, a protocol analysis and directory service expert who's worked with IPv6 international groups and forums for 10 years, supplies answers to the issues most frequently discussed by the clients she consults. With this guide, IPv6 project leaders and planning team members learn how to develop a cohesive integration strategy for building the next-generation network. * Make a business case by focusing on the opportunities IPv6 offers * Create a high level design and conduct a network assessment * Develop a plan for evaluating vendors and products, and building labs and testing * Understand routing protocol choices, security designs, and DNS issues * Discover how to create an IPv6 address plan and manage IPv6 addresses * Learn the available integration and transition technologies, and the scenarios they cover