Nicole Wajer - IPv6: The Internet's Best Kept Secret

Abstract

This presentation seeks to shed light on IPv6, often dubbed as the “Internet’s Best Kept Secret”. Despite being designed to replace the widely used IPv4 and address its limitations, IPv6 has experienced surprisingly low adoption rates. This presentation will explore the reasons for this paradox, focusing on the seamless functionality of IPv6 that often keeps its usage hidden from the end user.

Biography

Nicole is based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, She is with Cisco for 17 years and held various roles in the company. For the last 7 years she is part of the World Wide Sales team where she specializes on IPv6 and Data Science & Literacy.

Nicole is a frequent speaker for various Cisco Live conferences around the world on IPv6 and is for may years a huge F1 fan.

and has a global role in the World Wide Enterprise Networking team as a Technical Solutions Architect for Cisco. She graduated with a degree in Computer Science from the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and specialises in Internet Security, the Internet of Things (IoT) and IPv6.

In 2007, she started working for Cisco in Routing, Switching and Network Security. However, she quickly moved to Content Security due to her passion for fighting spam and malware. Recently, Wajer joined the Enterprise Networking team in Cisco.

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