A total of 33.6 million addresses are on their way to their ultimate users on the Net--meaning the last blocks of IPv4 addresses will be allocated soon. IPv6, hurry up, would ya? Stephen Shankland ...

Feature In the early 1990s, internetworking wonks realized the world was not many years away from running out of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses, the numbers needed to identify any device ...

The impending changeover from IP version 4 to IP version 6 won't really be a big deal, and most people won't even notice it as it happens. But the Internet will be running on both protocols for a ...

The US and Canada are down to their last 16.7 million Net addresses with today's IPv4 Internet technology. Scarcity is pushing Internet service providers to the next-gen IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked ...

The move from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addressing scheme to the new and vastly more expansive IPv6 has been going on so long that it is becoming more like a tradition than a transition.

Rudman made this known on Wednesday in Lagos at theDigital SENSE Forum Series 2018 in his presentation the theme: “IPV6: Broadening the Horizon in Nigeria”. Rudman made this known on Wednesday in ...

The first thing you need to know is … don’t panic. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be nothing like the prospect of Y2K in 1998-1999. However, it is a migration issue that you need to keep up to ...