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 ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

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 ...

Discussion around the coming transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has heated up over the past year. Here’s what you need to know. Mike Hannah is product development manager, Ethernet & Infrastructure, for ...

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 ...

Brocade, citing the major impact the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will have on service providers' ability to offer cloud-based services, this week introduced solutions for helping manage the ...

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses; there’s no argument about that. But what is up for debate is whether ISPs will migrate directly to IPv6 to solve this problem, or whether they will ...

Today is the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 launch, but despite progress on the transition 'father of the internet' Vint Cerf thinks it's not moving fast enough. If you're an ISP or enterprise IT ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

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 ...

Enterprises unaware of the role IPv6 plays on remote users’ devices run the risk that these machines might access banned sites despite using VPNs that are meant to restrict what they access. This hole ...