Moonv6 project examines interoperability of IPv6

released December 16, 2003

More than 10 members of Internet2are participating in the Moonv6 project, a large-scale implementation of the next-generation Internet Protocol. Moonv6 is a collaborative effort with the U.S. Department of Defense, the North American IPv6 Task Force, the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Lab, and the Joint Interoperability Testing Command to evaluate Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) in support of network-centric military operations.

Moonv6, a multi-site IPv6 network, tests the interoperability of numerous IPv6 implementations and is the largest multi-vendor IPv6 network to date. The project will provide strong support for IPv6 by testing and demonstrating its effectiveness under everyday circumstances.

A majority of the testing is being conducted on the Internet2 Abilene network, a nationwide 10 gigabit per second high-performance network. In addition to the Abilene Network, Internet2 has 26 connectors, 24 peers and 34 members IPv6 enabled.

The Moonv6 project is the first in a series of tests to move the DoD's Global Information Grid network to IPv6 by 2008. The project will be conducted in two phases; the first phase concluded in October and results will be announced at the U.S. IPv6 Summit 2003 in Arlington, Virginia, on Dec. 9. Phase two is scheduled to begin in January 2004.

 

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