WAN Advisor

	Finding IPv6-capable network appliances
	Tessa Parmenter, Site Editor When it's time for a product refresh, how do you find network appliances that are IPv6 capable to future-proof your enterprise WAN? Do you look for the IPv6 Ready Logo or the USGv6? In particular, why are so many wide area network vendors slow to incorporate IPv6 capabilities into their WAN accelerators? SearchEnterpriseWAN.com spoke to book author and Blue Coat chief scientist Qing Li, who led the vendor to deploy an IPv6 internal network, pushed the team to participate in World IPv6 Day and advised the company on how to develop a WAN optimization solution to accelerate IPv6 traffic -- the first and only currently in the industry. We asked what enterprises can do to find IPv6-capable WAN devices and more. What IPv6 capabilities should you look for?   How will IPv6 cause DNS issues?   Learn what problems are expected to occur around DNS as enterprises continue to deploy IPv6 in this 8-minute podcast with DNS and BIND author Cricket Liu. Listen to this interview.   Lagging IPv6 security features   According to experts monitoring the IPv6 changeover, the enterprise transition to IPv6 could be a minefield of security woes: IPv6 configuration errors, software vulnerabilities and suspect IPv6 security features in security devices may allow knowledgeable attackers easy access to sensitive systems. Learn more in this article from SearchSecurity.com.   Answer your IPv6 questions   Do you have a question about IPv6? Then ask our resident IPv6 expert, Silvia Hagen, on the IT Knowledge Exchange. (Your login is the same as your SearchEnterpriseWAN.com account).