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Understand the evolution and key milestones for the USGv6 and IPv6 Ready Logo Certification program in this easy to read info graphic. 

Learn more about the USGv6 & IPv6 Ready Logo Testing Process in this easy to follow infographic. To learn more about how to get your products certified, visit our testing services page.

Learn about the USGv6 Testing Process including in-house pre testing, all in this downloadable info graphic. 

Learn about the latest information pertaining to USGv6 Revision 1 (USGv6-r1) and IPv6 Ready Logo. Testing is available now for USGv6-r1. Starting in November 2022 buyers will no longer be able to accept SDoCs for the previous revision of the profile. The UNH-IOL's accredited testing can test your products for USGv6-r1 and IPv6 Ready Logo.

Exciting stats to share for the 10th year of the USGv6 Registry! Check below to learn about the products tested, IPv6 capabilities, and more. As of May 2020 there have been 550 total products tested and more to share.

Check out our latest webinar highlighting updates for the USG Test Program and IPv6 Ready Logo program with industry experts Timothy Winters, UNH-IOL; Michayla Newcombe, UNH-IOL and Doug Montgomery, NIST, as they discuss new updates on the USGv6 Test Program.

Check out this podcast as we discuss why testing v6 is crucial, and look at interoperability initiatives including the USGv6 program, a NIST effort to spur v6 adoption. Topics discussed include:

• Why IPv6 interoperability testing is important
• What gets tested and why?
• How IPv6-only deployments are impacting interoperability testing
• How has IPv6 testing impacted overall deployment of IPv6
• Why USGv6 has been critical to IPv6 adoption
• Why IPv6-only is likely to happen sooner than expected
• What should IPv6/IPv4 feature parity look like

This presentation was used in a Light Reading online seminar - it provides an overview the evolving networks of IoT and operators’ networks will need to evolve in order to address this diverse IoT opportunity.

This state machine flow chart covers a summary of the rules specified in RFC 4861 Sections 7.2 and 7.3.

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) hosted its fourth IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Router Interoperability Test Event the week of April 16 - April 20, 2012 at its 32,000+ square-foot facility in Durham, New Hampshire. The test event brought together both users and suppliers of CE routers, also known as home router equipment. The purpose of the test event was to gain a perspective on the current status of IPv6 interoperability against the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Basic Requirements for IPv6 Customer Edge Routers and support the Internet Society (ISOC) World IPv6 Launch. The eight participating vendor companies tested a total of ten distinct home router implementations throughout the week using publicly routable IPv6 addresses. Participants included Broadcom, CHT-TL IPv6 Testing Lab, D-Link, NDM Systems, Motorola Mobility LLC, Netgear, Time Warner and ZyXEL.

Observations discussed in this paper include:
* DHCP Solicits Frequency
* Renumbering
* No Default Route
* Forwarding before Address Acquisition
* DHCPv6 IA_PD & IA_NA Interactions

IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition provides a succinct, in-depth tour of all the new features and functions in IPv6. It guides you through everything you need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts and routers and which applications currently support IPv6. The new IPv6 protocols offers extended address space, scalability, improved support for security, real-time traffic support, and auto-configuration so that even a novice user can connect a machine to the Internet. Aimed at system and network administrators, engineers, network designers, and IT managers, this book will help you understand, plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current IPv4 infrastructure.

Now that the Internet has blossomed into the "Information Superhighway" with its traffic and drivers becoming increasingly diverse, security has emerged as a primary concern. This book offers the reader a global, integrated approach to providing internet security at the network layer. The author gives a detailed presentation of the revolutionary IPsec technology used today to create Virtual Private Networks and, in the near future, to protect the infrastructure of the Internet itself. The book addresses IPsec's major aspects and components to help the reader evaluate and compare features of different implementations. It provides a detailed understanding of this cutting-edge technology from the inside, which enables the reader to more effectively troubleshoot problems with specific products. Based on standards documents, discussion list archives, and practitioners' lore, this resource collects all the current knowledge of IPsec and describes it in a literate, clear manner.

This presentation provides a high level overview and introduction to IPsec, and related technologies.

This guide assists implementors of IPsec in preparation for testing at the IOL.

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) hosted its third IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) Router Interoperability Test Event the week of November 7-11, 2011.

The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) recently hosted an interoperability test event focusing on Customer Edge (CE) router IPv6 device capability. The testing documented during this event took place during the week of February 14th through 18th 2011.

Information about implementing a DHCPv6 system in an existing IPv6 netowrk.

The testing documented in this paper took place in June 2007 and focused on end-to-end basic office application demonstrations including printing scenarios, NFS (Network File Share), web design tools, collaboration tools, and SHIM6(Site Multihoming By IPv6) in a multivendor environment.

During the July 2006 test set, protocol-specific test plans were executed at both the UNH-IOL and the JITC Ft. Huachuca sites. IPv6 Information Assurance vulnerabilities assessment identified vulnerabilities in individual devices and within networks that are representative of operational DoD systems. Testing involved network applications including Network Time Protocol (NTP), DoD IPv6 Information Assurance, IPSec, DNS, DHCP, Firewalls and Applications, Transition Mechanisms and Dual-Stack Routing.

This round of testing aimed to improve the conformance, stability, and internetworking capability of multiple commercial implementations of IPv6. The event was attended by 11 organizations. Where previous rounds of testing were focused on testing core network areas, objectives for this round were to demonstrate advances in IPv6 applications, including DHCP, voice services, mobility, DHCP, DNS/DHCP resolution, application layer (VoIP), and security (IPsec). A successful VoIP call was made over IPv6 from New Hampshire to South Korea using commercial software.

The November test set explored several new areas, including VoIP via Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), wireless LANS and streaming video via Multicast. Particular areas of testing included IPsec, DNS, DHCP, iSCSI, routing, tunneling and QoS. The November testing was attended by 16 different vendors, and results proved that IPv6 is stable and capable of running key data communications applications (voice-based services and multicast).

Phase II of the Moonv6 project established the largest native IPv6 network in the world. The second phase of the project was able to demonstrate high speed links, advanced routing functionality, firewalls, QoS, and other key features. More than two dozen organizations participated in Phase II, and testing was facilitated by engineers from nine separate sites.

Phase I of Moonv6 demonstrated that current IPv6 networking technology is stable, resilient and ready for integration with today\'s Internet. The event was attended by more than thirty different organizations and confirmed several stable and interoperable implementations of IPv6, and proved that IPv6 is ready to be deployed on a global scale. Specific aspects of IPv6 included common network applications, base specifications, transition mechanisms, routing protocols, security and mobility.