Juniper Networks, today announced that the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has upgraded the Domain Name System F Root installation at its New Zealand location with Juniper Networks M-Series routing platforms. The upgrade allows the name servers at the location to handle next-generation IPv6 packet addressing.
ISC is a non-profit public benefit corporation that operates one of the 13 root servers behind the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS).
“We were especially impressed by the hardware-based IPv6 support in the M-series,” said Paul Vixie, Chairman of the ISC. “Juniper’s routers can forward or filter traffic at line rate, even during a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, since it’s all done in hardware. We also appreciate the extensive IPv6 routing protocol support and the clean separation of control and forwarding planes.”
Juniper Networks claims its M-series platforms enable network consolidation to significantly reduce operational costs and deliver high-performance security capabilities such as network address translation (NAT), stateful firewall and IPSec encryption. All Juniper Networks routing platforms feature built-in IPv6 capability and are unified on the fault-tolerant, modular JUNOS operating system.
ISC has deployed the M-series at its Auckland, New Zealand F-Root Server location. This latest deployment complements ISC’s M-series deployments at its other Asia Pacific root server locations, including Osaka and Seoul.
Article translated by John McClure and edited by John McClure
