In the world of networking, most people are familiar with IPv4. These numerical labels, like 192.168.2.1, have been used to identify devices for decades and have been the primary addressing scheme ...

We're in the process of completely rearchitecting our web serving/email environment at a new datacenter, and I'm looking moving into the 21st century with IPv6. In our current environment, we have an ...

If you’re wondering what to do about IPv6 – a long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol – consider the case of the Social Security Administration. If you’re wondering ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...

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 ...

Support for IPv6 has grown by almost 20 times in the past year by one measure, but most websites still can’t be reached without IPv4, the current Internet Protocol, which is near running out of ...

Some 200 technology companies including Akamai, Facebook, and Google will make the switch to IPv6 during the World IPv6 Day trial for 24 hours June 8. The test is intended to see how ready technology ...

I’ve got Netgear’s Obri setup in my house. It supports IPv6, but Verizon is apparently sitting on its hands and still has not rolled out IPv6 to its Fios service where I live. (Or practically anywhere ...

Like it or lump it, you're going to need to add IPv6 to your network. Here's how to start. Some people still think they don’t need to worry about the growing shortage of Internet IPv4 addresses and ...

The push to move the entire federal government to an IPv6-only architecture will be an enabler of cybersecurity capabilities like zero trust but can also open agency networks to new threats, officials ...

The current crop of Internet addresses could start to disappear this week if a regional Internet registry makes one more request for two blocks of addresses. APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information ...