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 ...

IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. Here’s what you need to know about IPv6. IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the ...

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a set of specifications from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that is responsible for identifying network devices and routing traffic across the ...

An IPv6 address is a 128-bit alphanumeric value that identifies an endpoint device in an Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) network. IPv6 is the successor to a previous addressing infrastructure, IPv4 ...

The IPv6 transition is here and the move from IPv4 to IPv6 can be a big opportunity for the IT channel. Check out CRN's IPv6 tutorial, IPv6 security coverage and more. With the arrival of IPv6 comes a ...

One might suppose that the most obvious difference between IPv4 and IPv6 is the address space: IPv4 addresses are only 32 bits long, and IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long. And there are more ...

More Internet traffic is expected to be carried via tunnels as the Internet infrastructure migrates from IPv4, the current version of the Internet protocol, to the long-anticipated upgrade known as ...

A shift in how the U.S. Federal Government connects to the Internet is underway. The good news is that it has some very welcome benefits, including enhanced security and greater operational efficiency ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Fourteen years after the Internet visionaries at the IETF first developed IPv6, there are still a vast majority of IT people who do not know about IPv6. There is still a significant lack of ...