IPv6 solves Internet scaling challenges, provides a flexible transition mechanism for the current Internet, and meets the needs of such new markets as mobile personal computing devices, networked ...

As we reported back in July, the Internet Engineering Task Force has been thinking about ways to make the IPv4 world talk to the (future) IPv6 world. This way, we don't all have to upgrade at the same ...

IPv6’s abundant address space enables granular controls, facilitating robust ZTA architectures more easily than IPv4’s constraints. Dualstack systems, by contrast, create management complexity and ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

IPv6 is central to safeguarding the expansion of the internet, but the global deployment of the protocol raises its own security challenges, says Axel Pawlik. The global adoption of IPv6 is one of the ...

With the demise of Apple's own networking protocol AppleTalk, Apple's products are suffering from the same issue as anyone else's: the Internet is running out of addresses. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, ...

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

As we start to plan for IPv6 and start to deploy it on our networks we should try to anticipate the operational costs related to running both IPv6 and IPv4. IPv6 provides more addresses and some minor ...

The IPv6 protocol affects the security of your network even if you haven't deployed it internally. Here are the most important points every security team needs to understand about the protocol. If you ...

World IPv6 Day, 6 June, 2012 is here, and with it many ISPs, websites and manufacturers are now supporting IPv6, the next generation network protocol of the internet. For many users, though, the ...

Till recently, we used the IPv4 version, which provided us with a 32-bit address. But these available addresses will be exhausted soon. The newer version of IP, is the IPv6, on the other hand, offers ...