The Next Generation of Internet Protocol - Opportunities and Challenges for Enterprises in Japan

Speaker : Gary Blankenship Technical Director in Japan for Foundry Networks

IPv6, the next generation Internet Protocol, has been in the works since the early 90s when the rapid growth of the Internet threatened to exhaust existing IP addresses. The new protocol offers scalability, increased security features, real-time traffic support and auto-configuration, but the path is full of pitfalls and risk. This presentation will focus on how to introduce IPv6 networking into the enterprise network without the introduction of productivity risk. Specific focus will be on how to make enterprise environments more secure, reliable, and productive for Voice, Video, Data, and Interactive networking.

Japan is a leader in the development of IPv6 technologies, but the focus is mostly on service providers in the initial phases. As the list of service providers offering IPv6 increases, so does the chance and opportunity to effectively introduce high productivity IPv6 technologies. Our speaker, Gary Blankenship, plunged into communications in 1983 as a telephone and data systems engineer in the United States Marine Corps for 14 years in roles ranging from Telephone Switchboard Technician to Information Systems Management Officer. Later Gary worked for key US government contracts as the lead engineer in Asia for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) including all US Medical facilities in Asia and as a key network security architect and operator for the United States Marine Corps' Network Operations Center in Quantico, VA. Mr. Blankenship has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland.