At the micro level, the migration of personally identifiable information and proprietary intellectual property online has influenced IPv6 protocol architects to bake additional security into the stack.

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Encourage deployment of IPsec and IPv6 protocol standards.

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For example, IPSec is mandatory to implement in IPv6 compliant protocol stacks, while Secure Neighbor Discovery capabilities, Privacy Addresses, and Unique Local Addresses (ULA) all provided additional security enhancements.

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Cisco Systems is helping enterprises prepare for the migration to IPv6 (Internet protocol version 6) from IPv4, which most of the world runs on today.

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The Cisco study also projects that 71 percent of all smartphones and tablets (1.6 billion) could be capable of connecting to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) mobile network by 2016.

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Internet Protocol version six, or IPv6, is an Internet addressing system designed to expand the number of available IP addresses.

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The protocol, which resides on a router at the edge of an IPv6 network, assigns a prefix to each IPv6 address to identify it as a 6to4 address.

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IPv6 is the way it has been designed to co-exist with the current protocol.

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The protocol then automatically sets up a tunnel over IPv4 to carry communications to other users with IPv6 addresses.

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At the IETF's 46th meeting held here last week, the 6to4 protocol garnered much attention as one solution to the chicken-and-egg problem of IPv6 migration.

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