Global Unicast Addressing, Routing, and Subnetting: This section introduces the concepts behind unicast IPv6 addresses, IPv6 routing, and subnetting using IPv6, all in comparison to IPv4. IPv6 ...

China made its mark with its implementation of IPv6 for the Beijing 2008 Olympics. London needs to follow suit — for the good of its games and to help create an IPv6-ready infrastructure in the ...

"A recent example of this is the one dot govt suite of services which is replacing the Government Shared Network. One dot govt Internet services are IPv6 ready today and the standard wide area network ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...

This just in from the strange-but-true-deployments department: Hundreds of cows and taxicabs in Japan have their own unique IP addresses. Recently, cows in Gifu prefecture were tagged with tiny ...

Software Defined Networking vendor Versa this week added support for IPv6 to its SD-WAN and security packages. According to Kumar Mehta, founder and CDO of Versa Networks by supporting IPv4 and IPv6 ...

Today, the standard methods for moving the network/host address boundary are variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) for host addressing and routing inside a routing domain, and classless interdomain ...

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 ...

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It’s IPv6 Launch Day — but don’t panic if your organization isn’t fully IPv6 compliant. Yes, advocates of a mass migration to IPv6 make some compelling arguments. Compared to IPv4, IPv6 offers nearly ...