Current News

This page contains news items related to SixXS happenings and operations. This will also be the place where public announcements will be made available. A separate PoP status page displays the status of the various PoPs. One can consult the Tickets for other outstanding issues.

Thursday, July 29th - uschi03 in Chicago, USA opens, hosted by Team Cymru

We are hereby announcing a new PoP in Chicago, USA hosted by Team Cymru. The PoP is generally available for users in the United States

Details about the PoP can be found on the uschi03 PoP information page.

Thursday, July 15th - lulux01 in Luxembourg, provided by Entreprise des Postes et Telecommunications opens

Today we officially open the doors of the Entreprise des Postes et Telecommunications PoP in Luxembourg. The PoP is generally available for inhabitants of Europe.

Details about the PoP can be found on the lulux01 PoP information page.

Monday, June 28th - Free IPv6 Book: Lawrence E. Hughes - The Second Internet

We are making a copy available of the book by InfoWeapons Chairman and CTO Lawrence E. Hughes called The Second Internet. Further details about the book can be found on the book's website The Second Internet, but you can download it directly from our archives in PDF format.

Saturday, June 26th - Login using your email address and other minor changes

From now on you will be able to login using your email address next to your registry handle. This is valid for both the website and the TIC service, thus one can also use it in AICCU configurations.

We have also resolved issues surrounding images in the wiki which where not properly working. Due to our backend system though we cannot allow user uploads anymore, thus if you want to add an image to an article, don't hesitate to send it to us.

Another minor update one might notice is the login/password at the top of the menu bar which now also is a bit smaller to make better use of the screen estate, enjoy.

Monday, April 12th - Now possible: TIC login per tunnel

We have updated the Tunnel Information page (user home and then select the tunnel from the list) to provide more details and hopefully clearer options. The page also now has an option to set a per-tunnel TIC password. When set this password can then be used with AICCU, the login, which is combined of the handle + tunnel-id locks the TIC session to the Tunnel ID, access to other tunnels is not possible. The per-tunnel TIC password is separate from the main SixXS password and thus can provide a bit of extra security.

Monday, March 8th - Covered in snow: a second PoP in Zurich courtesy of Init7

In the midst of a snow covered landscape we proudly open a second Swiss PoP in Zurich: chzrh02.sixxs.net. This PoP is provided by Init7. The PoP is available for all Swiss users and should alleviate the issues some users have when connecting to chzrh01 Further details about the PoP can be found on the Init7 PoP Page.

Sunday, February 28th - Brazilian PoP brudi01 launches, SixXS goes South America

We are extremely proud to present yet another PoP, this time in Uberlandia, Brazil provided by Companhia de Telecomunicações do Brasil Central.The PoP is generally available for inhabitants of South America. We hope that this will further IPv6 deployment a lot more in that region.

Details about the PoP can be found on the brudi01 PoP information page.

If you are able to read Portuguese, then don't forget to peek at IPv6.br which is an excellent IPv6 resource