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 ...

The first thing you need to know is … don’t panic. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be nothing like the prospect of Y2K in 1998-1999. However, it is a migration issue that you need to keep up to ...

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 ...

It’s no news that the Internet, which currently runs on internet protocol version 4 (IPv4), has a limited number of IP addresses available, and has already fallen short to suffice the needs of ...

IPv4 is stretched to breaking point and IPv6 migration is an inevitability as IoT devices multiply. Internet Protocol (IP) is the system that allows devices to find and connect to each other on the ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Discussions on IPv6 (read: IP Version 6) are hot in India now that Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN), a division of the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), has ...

IPv6 is central to safeguarding the expansion of the internet, but the global deployment of the protocol raises its own security challenges, says Axel Pawlik. The global adoption of IPv6 is one of the ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

BERLIN, GERMANY: Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new internet address standards might change the way they get online. Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the IPv4 ...