A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

Like a dangerous intersection that has existed for years, sometimes it takes a death or other tragic warning to spur people to action. Such a warning came earlier this year, when the last of the ...

IPv4 has been the backbone of internet communications. However, IT teams must now look to the next stage of internet protocol ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Domains that ...

With many organisations moving to IPv6, there could be monitoring issues and consequences for those that still use IPv4 ...

If you haven’t started deploying IPv6 — or at least begun planning your IPv6 deployment — you have fallen behind schedule compared to the majority of network operators worldwide, according to the ...

IPv6 transition competes against every other IT modernization priority in constrained budgets. Agencies prioritize immediate operational needs even when delayed transitions actually increase long-term ...

Countries worldwide are implementing IPv6, yet security and funding concerns have slowed the transition’s pace in the U.S. government. Many information technology community leaders are concerned about ...

It’s been a week or more since I last posted to this blog. A week of pounding away at a long-overdue chapter for a new book to the complete neglect of almost everything else (barely remembered that ...

The tech world's abuzz about IPv6, and for the IT channel, the transition to IPv6 undoubtedly means opportunity. But the level of that opportunity -- as well as the level of urgency -- is what's up ...

How much will it cost ISPs and enterprise customers to transition to IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol? No one knows for sure, but a recent report sponsored by the U.S.

Comcast and Internet Systems Consortium announced on Thursday the availability of open source software that will help carriers and enterprises migrate to IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the ...