Are you an IT professional or department manager. If you are, then this book is for you! Authors Patrick Grossetete Ciprian P. Popoviciu and Fred Wettling, have done an outstanding job of writing a book that provides a global overview of the strategies that developed around the IPv6 adoption and perspectives taken on it within various markets.

Grossetete, Popoviciu and Wettling, begin by introducing you to the importance of the Internet in today's economy. Then, the authors discuss the original case for developing IPv6 as presented by the IETF. The authors also take a closer look at the constraints presented by an IPv6 infrastructure to national economies and individual businesses. They continue by mapping some of the adoption drivers to IPv6 adoption strategies that emerged at the beginning of the 21st century. Then, the authors show you how to apply practical information in the development of IPv6 adoption strategies. Finally, they cover key aspects related to IPv6 planning.

This most excellent book provides practical guidelines based on the extensive IPv6 planning and deployment experience of the authors. Perhaps more importantly, this great book bridges the gap between the technology and the business dimensions of IPv6 to shed some light on a technological evolution with potentially revolutionary business outcomes.

I love that these three guys took the time to write this book. Collectively, they have the technical and business skills, combined with the necessary experience to make business sense of the transition to IPv6. They did a good job of looking at each of the key areas, with both the technical (where Patrick is widely respected) and business (where Fred actually led the Fortune 500's first global transition) focus.

This is the first v6 book that I would recommend to the general business population. Prior attempts have been good at the technical issues, but were written mostly for the v6-immersed set. This book will reward the non-v6 reader with practical benefits in business case, network optimization, security and more.

Good job authors-- and thanks for taking the time.

One thing to keep in mind is that this is not a "cookbook". It is less tactical, and more strategic.

I am not saying these are bad things, in fact when coupled with "Deploying IPv6 Networks" (also from Cisco Press, and some of the same authors!) you have a very holistic view of what IPv6 is, how to implement it, why you should be ready for it, the concerns that lie therein, etc.

/TJ

The authors are dead-on on their business case studies, adoption strategies, and planning. Every CIO and Sr. Network Engineer should read this book to realize that the next-generation network future is here now and should be leveraged as a business differentiator. In 2010-2012, every global enterprise and government will have a choice - be in denial or leverage the IPv6 change. The author's analysis in late 2007 (pages 346-351) of our Command Labs R&D facility as an innovation driver explains our sudden uptake in business in mid 2008 as industry and business begins to embrace the IPv6 evolution. The Internet must evolve to become easier to manage, support machine to machine (M2M) services, mobile services, and scale to global & beyond scope. I'm encouraged to see that Patrick, Ciprian, and Fred were able to forecast the requirements for global Internet scaling and put together a serious business analysis of how to architect the future of the Internet for the next 100 years. For every business that relies on e-commerce, networked business systems, is expanding into new global markets, and has customer facing Internet sites, the IPv6 transition is a business continuity and competitive advantage issue they must address. If you're a CIO, manage a company that relies on e-commerce, or are an IT leader, you should read this book and digest the advice - the Internet is evolving - will your enterprise lead or follow?