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Graduation web feed

itsnews — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:32:32 +0000

IT Services are assisting with the provision of a web feed for Graduation this year and alongside this, we are also trialling a multicast feed.

This is of a higher quality than the web one as it is taken from the encoder before it gets converted to a flash video, but can only be viewed from within the University of Reading network infrastructure.

This can be opened in VLC player (Videolan.org), you can use the SAP announcements to view the ‘UoR Live Events’ channel from the ‘University of Reading (Television)’ section.

Please tweet Congratulations to your family or friends who are graduating using the hashtag #rdggrad

World IPv6 Day facts and figures

itsnews — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:16:22 +0000

Official JANET records show the following institutions participated in World IPv6 day:

Leeds University

Sheffield University

Loughborough University

SOAS

Imperial College

Oxford University

Reading University

Bloomsbury Doctoral Training Centre

Cambridge University

Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru (Royal Welsh College of Music and

Drama)

Criminal Justice Social Work Development Centre for Scotland

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Assessment Network

The Hampstead Scientific Society Linkage Community Trust

Monash University

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute

Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

Totton College

and here is a graphic for the site traffic on IPv6 here at the University.

IPv6 test flight….

itsnews — Fri, 27 May 2011 21:18:27 +0000

On 8th June, a number of major organisations will be offering their Internet content using the IPv6 protocol for a 24-hour ‘test flight’. The goal of this day is to motivate organisations to prepare their services for IPv6, to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out.

The University of Reading will be taking part in this event, offering the University’s web site via both IPv6 and IPv4 protocols. We already have IPv6 enabled for a number of ‘behind the scenes’ services, including in- and out-bound email, Active Directory, and Domain Name Services (DNS). The eduroam wireless network has also been issuing IPv6 addresses to clients for a number of months now.

As this is a world-wide event, some users may experience problems connecting to certain web sites (including Google and Yahoo) if their computers are not configured correctly. There should not be any issue with University systems which are registered with IT Services and configured to use DHCP; or which use the correct DNS servers if manually configured.

For further detail on the event, see http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/. A full list of participants can be found at http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/participants/