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 ...

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 ...

IPv6 was designed to be an evolutionary step from IPv4. It was not a design goal to take a radical step away from IPv4. Functions that work in IPv4 were maintained in IPv6, and those that didn't work ...

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 ...

Just about everyone in the IT business has heard the promises of IPv6. Why continue leasing Class A blocks to individual companies when most companies have to beg for a Class C block of 256 IP ...

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

Lockheed Martin, a leading government contractor and systems integrator, is putting together a pilot project for switching from IPv4 to IPv6. The move from IPv4 to IPv6 is a move that, at is core, ...

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 ...

The long slog to adoption of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) passed a significant milestone last month when the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) – the organization charged with ...

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 ...

More than a decade ago—2003 to be precise—the Defense Department announced plans to convert its network to the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) standard. Today, the wait continues. Even the DOD ...

IPv6 solves Internet scaling challenges, provides a flexible transition mechanism for the current Internet, and meets the needs of such new markets as mobile personal computing devices, networked ...