November 19, 2010
The evolution of the Internet to IPv6 will directly affect enterprise customers because they will have to communicate with their customers, partners, and suppliers over an IPv6 network.
In order to ensure business continuity and future growth, all organizations need to carefully plan for coexistence between IPv4 and IPv6. Also, as IPv6 propagates, early adopters can deliver innovative platforms, applications, and services that take advantage of the technical possibilities of IPv6.
A combination of both native IPv4 and IPv6, better known as dual stack, is the recommended coexistence strategy for enterprise networks.
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One of the most significant underlying issues for the coming years is the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Ultimately, we'll need IPv6. But the transition is going to be a "challenge," to say the least.
So even though we'll move to IPv6 eventually, there will be a long time - perhaps as long as ten years - that IPv4 and IPv6 will coexist.
This is a great, extremely concise overview of using a "dual stack" strategy to support both IPv4 and IPv6.