Inside Products

Speaker: Nalini Elkins (Inside Products)
Tuesday, February 5, 2013 : 3 - 4pm

Many items have changed with IPv6 but none as dramatically as the addressing scheme.    Even before you begin your transition, setting up your addressing profile will be critical.  The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2128 (about 3.4×1038) addresses—or approximately 5×1028 (roughly 295) addresses for each of the roughly 6.8 billion (6.8×109) people alive in 2010.[11] In another perspective, this is the same number of IP addresses per person as the number of atoms in a metric ton of carbon.

While these numbers are impressive, it was not the intent of the designers of the IPv6 address space to assure geographical saturation with usable addresses. Rather, the longer addresses allow a better, systematic, hierarchical allocation of addresses and efficient route aggregation.  What you learned and used with IPv4 may not work as you might think with IPv6.    With IPv6, changing the prefix announced by a few routers can in principle renumber an entire network since the host identifiers (the least-significant 64 bits of an address) can be independently self-configured by a host.

Speakers: Sig Perdomo (DTCC) and Nalini Elkins (Inside Products)
Thursday, February 7, 2013 : 3 -4 pm

Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) is at the epicenter of the financial world. The business of the DTCC involves the safe transfer of securities ownership and settlement of trillions of dollars in trade obligations, under tight deadlines every day. At the same time, DTCC’s primary mission is to protect and mitigate risk for its members. DTCC ensures the capacity, certainty and reliability required to clear and settle today's enormous trading volumes.

This session will discuss how DTCC is starting to on the integration of IPv6 into their network.

We will discuss:

• Why now?
• Lab planning,
• Address planning,
• Problems encountered, and
• z/OS specifics.

Speaker: Nalini Elkins (Inside Products)
Thursday, February 7, 2013 : 12:15 - 1:15pm

Hackers are already aware of the security vulnerabilities in IPV6, and there are implications across all TCP connected platforms including System z. Forewarned is forearmed. Our speaker will identify the critical vulnerabilities and provide a technical and management overview of how the new IPV6 intrusions work, what is more secure, and what is not so secure.