The Power of IPv6 - Business Applications & Mission-Enhancing Services

There have been many drivers cited for IPv6 deployment around the world, from political agendas to address shortages to enabling future applications. The expanded IPv6 address pool solves the current problem of how to support the vast and rapidly-growing population of new Internet users, while National Research Networks, national NetCentric Defense Departments, and transportation Tele-matics are all looking at future potentials. The open question is how those issues and efforts affect the environment that a federal network manager faces today. At the end of the day the business case for IPv6 deployment has to be built on meeting local agency needs.

Building that case requires thinking beyond today to:
WHAT IF...

• someone repackages a NetCentric defense technology to improve civilian business productivity?
• mobility becomes the normal mode of network interaction?
• the network-connected PDA/phone/portable media player is used to deliver a daily agency update news-clip, serve as VoD training platform, or hold virtual team meetings?
• the entire agency inventory of appliances and vehicles is online for logistics management, including asset awareness, power reduction and location when applicable, and maintenance scheduling?
• emergency responders have access to a wide array of sensors around an incident scene to assess and control video, weather, traffic, and utilities flow, and that data is also fed to control centers that can analyze the situation and adjust the response staging to the impacted area, saving time and lives?
• escalating fuel prices drive a Federal-wide telework policy resulting in the immediate demand for a remote IP subnet for each employee?

With these productivity enhancing applications there will be both opportunity and need to revisit the fundamental network architecture. Join Dave West (bio) for “The Power of IPv6” Viewpoint, the next in a series of Conversations with Cisco®, and learn how Cisco can help you meet IPv6 mandates and imagine the possibilities of a not-so-distant future.  Discuss how you can move your network forward and benefit from IPv6.  Log on for the IPv6 Viewpoint with Cisco, May 24 at 2pm Eastern.