Preparing for IPv6
About the Speaker
Principal Network Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Daniel Pelfrey is a Principal Network Engineer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the Supercomputing Division. Daniel's Information Technology career began at an Internet startup company in 1995. He was there from customer number 0, and all the way up to 75,000, and from location #1 to over 35+ locations in three states. This eventually led to a nationwide ISP, and ultimately to ORNL where he is on the network team that takes care of the supercomputing network. Daniel's first round of formal educational experience was in electrical and computing engineering, and he has a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems at Strayer University. His hobbies include PC gaming-especially the game Factorio, retro gaming, electronics, science, anything space related and programming.
Presentation Resources
During the mid 1990's, Internet wasn't essential. Fast forward to today, and the Internet involves every aspect of our lives at work and at home and all around us. Everything evolves, changes. When we think about music media changes from 8-track tape, to cassettes, to CD's to MP3s those were drastic changes. The Internet has changed greatly in speeds, and various applications over the past 40 years, but has kept the same address system for most of us. This presentation will compare IPv4 and IPv6, the history in how we got to IPv6, and how to prepare for IPv6. These preparations will include how to understand the addressing, considering application use, and considering security. This will conclude with many recommendations on best practices and things to consider.