General purpose routers and switches are not the only network products being IPv6-enabled. Load balancing devices, cache appliances, RADIUS servers and other indispensable components for IPv4 Internet service are gradually getting IPv6-support.(As of Octber 1, 2003)
Hitachi Corporation
http://www.hitachi.co.jp/
PROGNET
A “network service infrastructure software” released on June
25, 2003. It is made up of two components: PROGNET/SB for per-user filtering,
authentication, billing information management, and PROGNET/PR for communicating
individual property information such as presence, age, and preference
to get customized information service.
F5 Networks
http://www.f5.com/
BIG-IP
A load balance switch. F5 is developing IPv6 node load balancing, load
balancing of IPv6 requests to IPv4 nodes, and Mobile IPv6 support, for
release by the end of 2003.
Accense Technology
http://www.accense.com/
Fullflex MG
Fullflex MG, a RADIUS server software, is given IPv6 support. It can allocate
network prefixes by prefix delegation.
Fujitsu
http://telecom.fujitsu.com/
IPCOM v4/v6 Translator
This is an IPv4/IPv6 protocol translation device marketed as part of the
company’s IPCOM series, which comprises of load balance switch and
other devices.
Yokogawa Electric
http://www.yokogawa.com/
TTB series
This product series offers IPv6/IPv4 translation and DNS proxy. It comes
with several models with some functional differences such as one-way or
bi-directional translation, and DNS proxy integration.
NEC
http://www.nec.com/
MX5840-NT
This product is described as IPv4/IPv6 VoIP NAT. It can perform address/port
translation, and application level gateway capability for SIP and RTP/RTCP.
It also supports SIP/SIMPLE protocol.
Yggr-drasill Technology
http://www.yggr-drasill.com/
All-one IPv6 Server
This is a server package with Apache,sendmail,bind,qpopper,ftpd
and other IPv6 software installed on a PC. It is based on Linux or FreeBSD.
Stellar Craft
http://www.stellar.co.jp/
Enterpras Pro 4.1
Enterpras Pro is a RADIUS server software developed by a Japanese vendor.
It comesstandard-equipped with authentication, authorization, billing
management features. Authorization can be based on user properties, caller
ID, login day/time, number of password errors, simultaneous logins, call
back and other parameters. Enterpras 4.0 and later optionally supports
IPv6. RADIUS packets can be exchanged over IPv6 networks. IPv6 address
can also be registered as part of user property information to be used
for authentication.
Network Appliance
http://www.netapp.com/
NetCache 5.5
NetCache, an OS for cache appliances by Network Appliance, can be upgraded
to version 5.5 to support IPv6. All products which can run NetCache 5.5
or later can support IPv6. These devices can sit between IPv6 servers
and IPv6 clients to offer HTTP caching. One device can handle both IPv4
and IPv6 caching.
