HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AstriCon, the conference and exhibition devoted to the open source Asterisk® platform, is quickly taking form, with speakers on a range of technical and business topics confirmed.

Portugal Telecom Selects Alcatel-Lucent's HLN Strategy Portugal Telecom has awarded a three-year agreement to Alcatel-Lucent to extend the capacity of its IP/MPLS network to support existing and new services to its growing customer base.

A report this week on CNN.com highlighted the fact that the world is running out of Internet addresses.

The current IPv4 protocol has fewer than 231.5 million addresses left, but the industry has been slow to adopt IPv6, which accommodates virtually unlimited unique identifiers. With less than a year's worth of Internet addresses left, the call for the technology industry to move faster to adopt the next-generation Internet protocol is growing louder.

Radware , a leading provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that it has achieved the IPv6 Ready Logo on its intelligent application delivery controller , AppDirector® 2.20.

With the supply of current Internet addresses predicted to run out by the end of next year, India has issued orders for a transition to a new Internet protocol. Last week, the Indian government said all Internet service providers and telecommunications providers must be IPv6-compliant by the end of next year, and all government agencies and public-sector companies will need to switch by March ...

The world is running out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand the pool of available IP addresses while also providing a few other benefits.

Why the world needs to quickly embrace IPv6 The world is almost out of IP addresses - or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with.

India has started to roll out plans for switching the nation from IPv4 to IPv6. The country is demanding that all entitiesfrom federal and state government ministries to public sector companiesbe migrated to the new Internet protocol version by March of 2012.