Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

A new protocol, IPv6, was devised and hailed as the solution, with exhaustion of IPv4 addresses leading many to expect IPv4's replacement within a decade. Fast-forward to today, fourteen years after ...

Many hackers have familiar sayings in their heads, such as “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” and KISS (Keep it simple, stupid). Those of us who have been in the field for some time have habits that ...

What just happened? At the end of March, Google hit a long-anticipated milestone: half of its global users accessed services over IPv6. The moment marks the first time IPv6 traffic has reached parity ...

In “automatic” tunneling, hybrid IPv4/IPv6 addresses are created by extending 32-bit IPv4 addresses to 128 bits by adding leading zeros. IPv6 packets are encapsulated within IPv4 headers, so that one ...

In recent times, the two technologies that jointly brought ubiquitous online connectivity to the world have confronted existential difficulties brought on by their own success. IPv4 (Internet Protocol ...

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 Internet has been rolling along for decades on the strength of IPv4 and its numbering system, which has supplied billions of addresses. As long as more addresses were available, few people thought ...

As hundreds of regional communications service providers rush to deploy broadband and add thousands of new subscribers to their networks, they face a long list of tasks and budget items to be ...