IPv6 promises to fix that by giving every device its own globally unique address, removing the need for NAT and simplifying ...

The impact of the dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses will depend on how long it takes to deploy IPv6 fully. It is in that interim period that we'll see whether cloud computing can really fulfil its ...

The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 – a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol – is that it lacks backwards compatibility ...

The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 – a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol – is that it lacks backwards compatibility ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the ...

Face it -- IPv6 is about to come into its own in a very big way. Get ready before you're blindsided One could legitimately say that the Internet is indeed out of IPv4 addresses right now, but the pain ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

This story originally appeared in TV Technology. Now that World IPv6 Day (June 8) is behind us, we can all take comfort in the fact that the Internet didn’t collapse when major companies including ...