A10 Networks specializing in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC (News - Alert)), announced that the IPv4 address allocation is exhausted according to industry accepted indicators.

As the final allocations under the existing framework have been allocated it triggers the processes for IANA or the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority to assign the final five IPv4 /8 blocks, one to each of the five regional registries. When the IANA pool of IPv4 addresses no longer get exhausted, IPv4 addresses can be issued to the regional registries that provide addresses to organizations, said A10 sources.

Depletion in the IPv4 addresses has been expected for some time now and is creating a business threat for service providers, according to the company, as it forces service providers to migrate users to IPv6 once there are no new IPv4 addresses to assign to new subscribers. There are also huge volumes of legacy IPv4 infrastructure, devices, services, applications and content.

According to A10 sources, service providers need high performance, practical and appropriate IPv4/IPv6 gateways for their networks. A10’s AX Series provides comprehensive and scalable solutions to integrate IPv4 and IPv6 that are built on top of its 64-bit Advanced Core OS (ACOS).

“The IANA IPv4 depletion is an important milestone that shows justification for the ramp of activity we are seeing in the various IPv4 preservation and IPv6 migration technologies A10 offers,” said Raj Jalan, CTO for A10 Networks (News - Alert), in a statement. “However, with addresses still available from regional authorities and service providers, the ‘IPv4 pinch’ may not be felt for some time.”

“The notion of IPv6 networks being the primary protocol over today’s IPv4 networks is on the horizon,” Jalan added. “The day of IPv6 networks having to support legacy IPv4 networks is not a question of if, but when.”

Lee Chen (News - Alert), A10 Networks Founder and CE,  noted that the emerging IPv6 migration market has been a key focus area for A10 Networks for awhile. Also IPv4 and IPv6 will co-exist until at least 2020 which will necessitate high-performance solutions to translate between the two protocols and aid in protocol migration and preservation strategies.

“The world’s first carrier IPv6 deployments and also major IPv6 enabled web sites are now live and in production with our AX Series, and we look forward to helping more customers globally with efficient IPv4/IPv6 transitions,” Chen said.

Fidelis XPS is working in conjunction with A10 Networks’ ID Series products so users can consume dynamic IP-to-ID information from multiple user directories, operating systems and networking devices using a modular, agent-less approach. This information can be applied to all network traffic in real-time.

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