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| Hexago Launches Gateway6 Hexago has announced worldwide availability of Gateway6, a sophisticated tool capable of providing connectivity between the current Internet, IPv4, and the next generation of the Internet, IPv6. Gateway6 offers four key features over its precursor, Migration Broker 4.1, which together increase the speed, throughput, reliability, flexibility and security with which companies and government agencies can access and use IPv6. Gateway6's new hardware platform combined with Gigabit Ethernet interfaces provide customers with performance enhancements, including faster network connections and increased traffic throughput. The new Gateway6 auto-discovery feature provides IPv6 connections through the most efficient path in the network. This improves network performances, robustness and availability of IPv6 services, especially for networks distributed over large geographical areas. Overall, Gateway6 auto-discovery improves reliability of an organization's IPv6 transition strategy. A third important new feature is the implementation of IPSec, which provides secure IPv6 services. Finally, Gateway6's client is now licensed under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) agreement, permitting customers to freely incorporate the client into products they plan to commercially deploy. Hexago's Gateway6 enables U.S. government agencies and their prime contractors to comply with the directive from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to be IPv6 capable by 2008. With Gateway6, agencies can satisfy the OMB requirements for IPv6 transition quickly and easily, and create a window of opportunity needed to secure the appropriate capital and service budget to build either a dual stack (both IPv4 and IPv6) or native IPv6 network. Hexago's Gateway6 may be ordered now and will start shipping at the end of September 2006. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |