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. Up to date IPv6 news can be found at at IPv6 Style.

There are currently known problems with : usatl01 uschi01. We are aware of this and one does not need to contact us nor report anything about this. The problems will be resolved in due time, please have patience. A separate PoP status page displays the status of the various PoPs. One can consult the Tickets for other outstanding issues.

Tuesday, April 29th - Popping Scandanavia: Second Port80 AB PoP opens in Oslo, Norway

We are proud to open a new PoP in Scandanavia: noosl01.sixxs.net. With this addition every Scandanavian country has their very own SixXS PoP This new PoP is located in Oslo, Norway, hosted, like sesto01 by Port80 AB. The PoP is available for all Norwegian users and is also connected to the experimental ecmh multicast cloud. Further details about the PoP can be found on the Port80 PoP Page. Current Norwegian users will receive an offer to start using this PoP instead of their out-of-country based PoP.

Tuesday, April 1st - Free 10GE IPv6 Tunnels for everybody

From today on SixXS is offering free 10GE tunnels for a massive amount of IPv6 connectivity. You will now be able to download as fast as possible, in most cases several hundreds of times faster than with your existing IPv4 connection. This demonstrates that IPv6 is much faster than IPv4! Your IPv6 Internet will never have been as fast as this!

Availability is subject to the amount of carrier pigeons that are not stressed out yet to carry your packets from your endpoint to the PoP and to the rest of the world and all the way back. No animals are being hurt in this process or by the carrying of DLT tapes.

Monday, March 24th - Into the snowy mountains: a new PoP from IP-Man in Zurich, Switzerland

In the midst of a snowy easter we proudly open the first Swiss based PoP in Zurich: chzrh01.sixxs.net. This PoP is located at the TIX, hosted by IP-Man. The PoP is available for all Swiss users and is also connected to the experimental ecmh multicast cloud. Further details about the PoP can be found on the IP-Man PoP Page. Current Swiss users will receive an offer to start using this PoP instead of their out-of-country based PoP.

With the opening of this PoP, SixXS is now present in 15 countries around the world. Many thanks to all the ISPs providing the PoPs!

Monday, March 10th - SixXS does Düsseldorf, Germany with a new PoP from SpeedPartner GmbH

We proudly present a new German based PoP located in the city of Düsseldorf: dedus01.sixxs.net. This PoP is located in SpeedPartner GmbH's Datacenter and is from now on available for all German users, thus allowing these users to pick between the Easynet PoP and the SpeedPartner PoP. Further details about the PoP can be found on the SpeedPartner GmbH PoP Page.

Wednesday, March 5th - More IPv6 Multicast Experiments

We have recently given quite some love to the experimental IPv6 Multicast support. Most European PoPs should now be able to receive the IPv6 Multicast groups that are being broadcasted on the m6bone. A IPv6 Multicast dbeacon is available to check the status of the Multicast cloud.

When one is reading about IPv6, don't forget to check up on the Google IPv6 Conference.