The last conventional Internet address blocks likely will be doled out this week or next, moving the transition to a next-gen Internet to the computing front burner. Is your broadband ready? Stephen ...

This won't come as any surprise to anyone in the network business, but Arbor Networks has just published a study of "native IPv6 traffic volumes across multiple large carriers" and found "only a small ...

The time for testing is over as Facebook, Cisco, Comcast, and others will soon permanently enable next-generation Internet technology with vastly more elbow room. What's it all mean? Stephen Shankland ...

China’s Cyberspace Administration on Tuesday issued a plan for wider adoption of IPv6 between now and 2030, and for more work ...

Vince Cerf, one of the Internet's fathers, wants you to use IPv6. Network administrators have long known that we're running out of IPv4 addresses. But, IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, ...

The world is almost out of IP addresses–or at least it’s almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand ...

We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One ...