Unicamp was the winner of the 9th IPv6 Challenge, a technical community initiative supported bya by the LACNIC, the international body responsible for the allocation and administration ofand numbering IP (main protocol used in Internet), by the rules and policies for Internet use for Latin America and the Caribbean. In total, 26 public and private institutions that meet the scope of LACNIC participated in the competition, which consisted of presenting at least two reports on the implementation of the new Internet protocol IPv6 (better known as IP) to an international committee. During the announcement of the winners, last May, the evaluation committee highlighted the quality of the works presented and declared second place to Top Communications, from Venezuela, and decided to offer an honorable mention to Mayab Networks and Consultancies in Mexico.
The effort to participate in the challenge came from the team of network administrators at the Computing Center (CCUEC) formed by Aurelio Couto Arruda, Eduardo Augusto Trettel, Ivan Miguel da Silva, Rachel de Carvalho Paschoalino, Rafael Arthur Gazzoni, Ricardo Bueno da Silva and Wesley Davi da Silva and the Faculty of Applied Sciences (FCA), formed by Henri Alves de Godoy.
On the 16th of June, the team mustá present the report during the Webinar which marks the annual celebration of IPv6 Day aimed at professionals in Latin America and the Caribbean. “This is the first time that a winning team from the challenge has been invited to present the report. We are very satisfied with the work carried out. It was a team effort that paid off,” he highlights. Henri Godoy who estimates that the necessary documentation for the challenge was organized in 45 days. “ICT professionals were in great demand during this pandemic period and, in addition to the general demands, the group managed to advance in the implementation of the protocol and complete the documentation within the stipulated deadline”, he assesses.
According to Godoy, winning a challenge at this level attests to the recognition of the work developed by Unicamp's Information and Communication Technology (ICT) professionals, in addition to allowing visibility for the University as it is equipped with the most modern in terms of protocol. in addressing on the Internet. With IPv6, it is possible, for example, to connect a substantial range of equipment and, thus, offer the community and visitors a stable and secure Internet for the development of teaching, research and extension activities. IPv6 will also enable Unicamp to connect with laboratories and several global research centers that have adopted the protocol.
A version of the previous protocol, IPv4, according to the professional, by having an addressing range more restricted, could influence the expansion of a u's networkuniversity the size of Unicamp. Furthermore, in 2017 IPv4 became officially obsolete, with IPv6 being the global standard. “In the United States, for example, the adoption of this protocol is mandatory in some government bodies and public administration, but in Brazil, the federal government is still limited to technical recommendations only and is moving slowly in implementing the new protocol”, he highlights.
For Godoy, the Adoption of IPv6 is inevitable and the sooner it is done, the less costs it will have to implement. In this way, Unicamp assumes a vanguard role in being able to implement IPv6 in a diversity of services. “There was a limited initial installation of the IPv6 protocol and the pandemic and the Challenge proposal also made the configuration of several services offered advance. the community, , the doing more Web servers, central routers, telephony and wireless networks”, he recalls.
Since 2011, unrest began among ICT professionals from Unicamp mainly in relation to the number of devices connected to the Internet and, consequently, the number of IPs to be made available, which resulted in the creation of a working group. It was years dedicated meetings, training and preparation of infrastructure to serve the university community in their research and projects, such as the Tranquilo Campus, Sustainable Campus and Smart Campus. “This is hard work that doesn’t appear, but it forms the basis of the Internet connection in the world today”, he highlights.
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