The WIDE 6bone (1) One of the oldest and largest IPv6 backbones in the world Since June 9th, 1996 Operated by the WIDE project 28 routers in the backbone Native IPv6 links ATM, serial, ethernet Only a few (1 or 2?) tunnels in the backbone, and they will soon vanish. 6bone address: 3ffe:0501::/32 64 leaf sites via 16 POPs (point of presences) sTLA address: 2001:0200:0100::/40 10 NLA2 sites via 5 POPs