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 ...

It has been a long climb to this point. IPv6, with support for around 3.4 x 10 38 addresses, was developed due to fears that ...

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 ...

IPv6 carried half of global traffic for a single day in March, according to Google. The search and ads giant tracks the ...

The time for testing is over as Facebook, Cisco, Comcast, and others will soon permanently enable next-generation Internet technology with vastly more elbow room. What's it all mean? Stephen Shankland ...

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, ...

Version six of Internet Protocol — or IPv6 — was approved as a standard many years ago, but the high cost of rolling it out has been too severe for the slow economic recovery. After all, implementing ...

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 ...

Michael Fry receives funding from ARC. If you’re the sort of person who relies on the internet every day, you’ll maybe have twitched slightly on hearing rumours that the world is running out of ...