The world has passed it by in many ways, yet it remains relevant Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized ...

Migration has been gradual, but the move to IPv6 could speed up with IPv4 addresses running out The argument about how best to upgrade the Internet’s main communications protocol raged in the Internet ...

In hindsight, we reached peak IPv4 two years ago. The good news is that IPv6 is doing very well—but not nearly well enough. Is the IPv6 glass 1 percent full or 99 percent empty? “Hi, I’d like to sign ...

Internet Protocol (IP) is the foundation of the internet, enabling communication between devices across the globe. Without an IP address, the Internet will simply not work because the data will not ...

It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

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 ...

CDN network Akamai today published its quarterly “State of the Internet” report for the first quarter of 2016. The report examines global internet speeds, which are going to be more relevant than ever ...

Among the challenges faced by IPv6, a long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, is the fact that IPv6 is slower than the existing IPv4 protocol it hopes to replace.

Today is the day IPv6 finally goes live. For as long as there has been an Internet IPv4 has been synonymous with IP and nobody really stopped to think about which version of the protocol it was. But ...