gogo6 Launches gogoNET Social Network for IPv6

gogo6 inc., the leading provider of IPv6 products, community and services, today announced the launch of gogoNET (gogoNET.gogo6.com), the social network for IPv6 professionals, after a two month beta period. gogoNET’s purpose is to provide the knowledge necessary to help professionals answer the fundamental question: “How should I roll out IPv6 in my network?”

With the goal of transferring IPv6 knowledge between members, gogoNET includes:

• Thousands of v6 professionals from around the world to interact with and learn from, and

• Over 50 country groups for professionals to discuss issues in their native language, and

• Hundreds of member blogs and discussions on technical and business issues, and

• A filtered and indexed IPv6 library of 150 videos, 400 presentations and 100 docs/books, and

• The Freenet6 service providing free IPv6 connectivity so members can start using IPv6 now, before their ISPs offer it. Freenet6 has POPs in Montreal, Amsterdam, Taipei and Sydney and includes services for 6in4 and 4in6 tunneling and a collection of tools to test and debug IPv6 networks.

“We built gogoNET because we believe participating in a professional social network is the best way to acquire the knowledge necessary to implement IPv6,” said Bruce Sinclair, gogo6 CEO. “If you think about it, it’s easy to find information on IPv6 but not knowledge. Knowledge comes from formal training, past experience or the experience of others. Given most professionals were not schooled in IPv6, learning it from others is the most practical alternative. gogoNET is a collection of professionals with different IPv6 knowledge - tapping into this allows professionals to make sense of the information out there and to make the right decisions.”

"Web 2.0 is not a defined protocol by W3C, it’s just a collection of social networking apps with proprietary solutions,” said Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum. “W3C is working on standardizing web 2.0 in the web 3.0 protocols. However gogoNET goes beyond web 2/3.0, it promotes the use of the end to end Internet model using IPv6 to generate the next generation web apps to open greater innovation in social networking especially for the mobile networking world in the making.”

About gogo6

gogo6 connects the world to the new Internet with IPv6 products, community and services. gogoWARE products provide interoperability between IPv4 and IPv6 networks, services, applications and devices, enabling the incremental deployment of IPv6. Its customers today are mainly ISPs, governments and research & education networks such as: AT&T, Comcast, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, DISA, Lockheed Martin, GRNET and Renater. gogoNET is a social network and services for professionals to go v6. It has over 10,000 members and includes the Freenet6 service to get free IPv6 connectivity. For more information, go to: gogo6.com, or visit us on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, or email us at: pr@gogo6.com.