WWT Wins Army ITES-2H Contract

Recently World Wide Technology announced it has been selected as a prime contractor for the U.S. Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – 2 Hardware (ITES-2H) contract. WWT is one of six companies awarded contracts under the five-year, $5 billion Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract.

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To download the WWT ITES-2H overview, click here.

Cisco Honors WWT at its Annual Partner Summit

World Wide Technology was named the 2006 Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) U.S. and Canada Theatre Partner of the Year for demonstrating technical excellence and delivering customer value in the federal, service provider, and enterprise customer segments.  World Wide received several additional awards recognizing the company’s outstanding performance in North America at the annual Cisco Partner Summit held this year in Las Vegas.

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Transitioning Federal Networks to IPv6

The federal government has declared that its entire network be converted from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) by 2008. In conjunction with Cisco Systems®, World Wide Technology will host an educational Web Seminar on IPv6 transition in the federal government, online May 3, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern.  Through this complimentary Webcast, participants will have a better understanding of how this mandated transition is affecting federal agencies and learn best practices for budgeting, planning, and executing a well-paced, careful upgrade.

For more information or to register for the Transitioning Federal Networks to IPv6 Webcast, click here.

White Paper: Internet Protocol Version 6

Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) is poised to deliver limitless, secure IP addresses to support the continuing proliferation of Internet-enabled devices.  As Internet Protocol v4 (IPv4) will soon be obsolete, forward-thinking enterprises are now planning their integration and support for IPv6.  This clear and easy-to-understand white paper outlines the remarkable capabilities of IPv6 and delivers a step-by-step plan to upgrade to IPv6 in order to maintain secure, optimized connections to the Internet. To read the full white paper, click here.

IPv6 Upgrade: Cisco® Catalyst 6500 and 7600 Platform Supervisor Engines

The Office of Management and Budget and Department of Defense mandates for core networks to be IPv6 capable by June 2008 provides impetus for customers to upgrade the Supervisor Engines of their Catalyst 6500 and Cisco 7600 platforms.  Customers currently using Supervisor Engine 2 should strongly consider replacing that Supervisor with Supervisor Engine 720 or Supervisor 32.  The Supervisor Engine 2 is limited to IPv6 in software while the Supervisor Engine 720 and Supervisor 32 perform IPv6 forwarding in hardware which provides better performance.  Additionally, the Supervisor Engine 2 is End of Sale effective March 2007.  To read the Supervisor End of Sale announcement click here. For more information about Supervisor Engine 720 and Supervisor Engine 32, please download the respective datasheets:  Supervisor Engine 720 Supervisor Engine 32