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Network Box USA Gets IPv6 Ready

If you are not familiar with IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6), you will be soon. The current standard, IPv4, is almost out of available addresses, and IPv6 is in line to succeed IPv4. "Imagine a company moves its office, to find they can only get an IPv6 Internet connection to their new office," says Pierluigi Stella, CTO of Network Box USA.

"What happens at that point? Is their eclectic, yet typical, mix of new, fairly new, old, and very old computer equipment going to work?" Network Box will soon be rolling out its Version Five systems to solve that problem immediately. "IPv4 and IPv6 are completely incompatible," Stella says. With the Network Box systems, however, "your computer can speak IPv4 and the Network Box will translate that into IPv6. As far as I know, Network Box is the only UTM device capable of doing this."

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