Despite the advantages of IPv6, corporate users have resolutely avoided upgrading to it. But changes in the Net may soon force them to, as everything from handhelds to cell phones to refrigerators ...

For any identity wonks out there, a tipping point is likely to be reached in 2025: nearly 50% of online (aka Google) users have IPv6 availability today, and the numbers continue to climb. This is good ...

Harrisonburg, Virginia will be the first U.S. city to have a citywide IPv6 network, streamlining municipal functions and serving as an example of the advantages of IPv6 The city of Harrisonburg, ...

This excerpt from a Network World story is what at least the beginning of success looks like for the folks who have been pushing Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for a decade or more: If you go to ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) is the most widely used communications protocol. Because it is the most pervasive communication technology, it is the focus of hundreds of thousands of IT professionals like ...

There’s no rush to convert the world to IPv6, the next-generation Internet protocol. So concludes a new report from the U.S. Department of Commerce ‘s IPv6 Task Force, which says going slow on IPv6 is ...

The industry has produced several well-documented mechanisms to support a transition to IPv6, including the dual-stack approach, translation (the direct conversion of protocols between IPv4 and IPv6) ...

A great deal has been written about Internet Protocol Version 6. You’ve no doubt heard that we’re running out of IPv4 addresses (the familiar “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” numbers) and that IPv6 is the answer.

Starting in late 1999, I was editor of CommVerge, a short-lived sister publication to EDN that focused on the convergence trend. We launched just as the Internet went mainstream and folded with the so ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Up to a decade late by some estimations, the official launch of the Internet’s new protocol, IPv6 ...

There is a lot of talk that 2011 will be the year of IPv6 - or at least there was a lot of talk at the beginning of the year, because I don't hear a lot about it lately... Given that the feds have ...

That was the conclusion of our fateful board meeting back in 2008 when I was CEO of Hexago, a pioneering IPv6 network equipment vendor. I had raised a big round of financing a year earlier by riding ...