This won't come as any surprise to anyone in the network business, but Arbor Networks has just published a study of "native IPv6 traffic volumes across multiple large carriers" and found "only a small ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

The last conventional Internet address blocks likely will be doled out this week or next, moving the transition to a next-gen Internet to the computing front burner. Is your broadband ready? Stephen ...

Vince Cerf, one of the Internet's fathers, wants you to use IPv6. Network administrators have long known that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, ...

The transition to IPv6 is important not only because the 4.3 billion IPv4 addresses are running out, but also because the proliferation of Internet-connected devices is creating a new environment of ...

Recently I have noticed some concrete evidence that the IPv6 Internet is growing. Reports that document IPv6 Internet traffic volumes show that the amount of IPv6 traffic is increasing. The IPv6 ...

The next-generation Internet technology has been gradually arriving for years, but it takes a big step forward today with the World IPv6 Launch event. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

You may not have noticed when you woke up today, but the Internet universe expanded overnight by the trillions. Today at midnight, Greenwich Mean Time, the new Internet protocol system IPv6 was born, ...

We are at the dawn of the age of IPv6, the Internet protocol that will succeed version 4, experts say. With 340 undecillion available addresses, IPv6 ensures that the Internet can continue growing and ...

John Curran is CEO of ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which provides management and administration for the IP addresses in the U.S., Canada and parts of the Carribbean. Today, the ...

We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One ...

When we read about the Internet of Things (IoT) we see where people are breathlessly expounding the virtues and perils of the latest marketing terminology. To be fair there are a lot of great ...