IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...

The last few blocks of internet addresses using IPv4 are widely expected to be handed out this week. Southampton University's Tim Chown explores what happens next with the switch to IPv6. As I write, ...

Comcast said this week that it has successfully seeded a tiny group of customers with a new type of dual-stack cable modem that can access IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses without compromises. On Jan. 11, ...

Even though IPv6 has been standardized for many years, there is a general lack of knowledge and experience with IPv6, and now many enterprises are starting to realize the bind they're in We are in an ...

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 ...

Doha: The Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) has collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q) and Qatar University (QU) to issue a handbook of guidelines and basics to ...

Meanwhile, BT has finally revealed when most of its customers can expect IPv6 connectivity: early 2017. The company told Ars that it's still on target to enable dual-stack IPv6 across its network by ...

With the June 2008 deadline for federal agencies to support IPv6 only a year away, network management vendors are starting to upgrade their products to support the emerging protocol. Cisco Network ...

Telstra now has “hundreds of thousands” of devices on its mobile network that use IPv6 addresses to access internet content. Technology team manager Jeff Schmidt told the annual Apricot internet ...