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Seamless Transition to IPv6

With the depletion of IPv4 addresses, today's service providers and enterprises need a way to support Internet-enabled IPv6-only clients, services, and dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 networks. The Brocade ServerIron ADX Series of application delivery switches enables organizations to deliver high-performance cloud-based services to both IPv6 and IPv4 environments while protecting their existing infrastructure investments.

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Facilitating the Scalable Transition to IPv6 with a Cloud-Optimized Application Delivery Solution

IPv6 technology offers more robust capabilities while simplifying network administration, resolving security and mobility issues, and improving Quality of Service (QoS). As a result, organizations can support new IPv6 devices and create more customized cloud services using high-performance, highly scalable, and secure IPv6-based infrastructures.

Carrier-grade Brocade ADX Series application delivery switches deliver performance and feature service parity between IPv4 and IPv6 to enable a scalable dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 network. As a result, organizations can deploy a robust solution that increases performance without compromising on reliability. Moreover, they can add services to support new Internet users with performance parity of IPv6 Layer 4-7 connectivity.

The Brocade ADX Series standards-based IPv4-to-IPv6 translation technology enables service providers, enterprises, and government agencies to systematically deploy IPv6 capabilities without having to replace their existing IPv4 application infrastructure–and still achieve much higher performance levels. In addition, the Brocade ADX Series tightly controls network flows and simplifies management of security policies to mitigate unexpected network bottlenecks, which ultimately enables highly reliable applications.

IPv6 Performance and Feature Parity

The Brocade ADX Series enhances IPv6 performance to meet the IPv4 performance standard, while also providing the IPv6 features for business-critical services such as SSL offload, GSLB, FWLB, and more.

Brocade IPv6 Gateway (NAT64) solution: The Brocade ADX Series enables IPv4 networks to interoperate with IPv6 networks via a simple, standards-based Network Address Translation 64 (NAT64) gateway. This enables IPv4 clients to communicate with new IPv6 networks, as well as new IPv6-based clients to communicate with traditional IPv4 networks–without requiring forklift upgrades to existing network infrastructure.

IPv6 SLB gateway: The Brocade ADX Series also allows existing IPv4 applications to be advertised via an IPv6-based Virtual IP (VIP) service. Existing servers and applications can then be slowly migrated to IPv6 during their natural upgrade cycles. The Brocade ADX Series switches load-balance traffic destined to an IPv6 VIP among IPv4 application servers, which can be upgraded to support IPv6 at an evolutionary rate.

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Abstract:

The transition from the IPv4 protocol to the IPv6 protocol represents a significant challenge to service providers, hosting services, and other companies. They must find ways to accommodate end users and Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE) devices that may be using either protocol. This white paper examines four transition technologies. Brocade is offering its customers a transition path to the new wave of Internet technologies while continuing to utilize customers’ existing infrastructure.