A European Commission study finds about 92 percent of ISPs don't use IPv6 yet or see little IPv6 traffic
Few organizations across Europe have upgraded to IPv6, the new version of the Internet's addressing protocol, according to a survey commissioned by the European Commission.
Cisco routers upgraded to help IPv4 to IPv6 migration
Cisco this week enhanced its IPv6 offerings for its carrier core and edge routers in an effort to ease the eventual migration from IPv4.
Predecessor IPv4 is running out of available addresses, Vinton Cerf warns at industry event
Internet pioneer Vinton Cerf has repeated a call for migrations to IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) to stave off an anticipated lack of available addresses on IPv4.
The tool counts down the days until all IPv4 addresses have been assigned
If you're the kind of person who walks down the street worrying about the depletion of IPv4 addresses, the iPhone can now tell you how long you have until that happens.
Experts say that most companies have hidden IPv6 traffic running across their networks
IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- isn't keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should.
IPv6 is a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4
Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus.
IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol
Little-known Hurricane Electric, the nation's leading provider of IPv6 services, is bracing for new and bigger competitors entering the fray.
African nations do not have the same sorts of headaches as more technologically advanced regions
Africa's lag behind other regions in technology may actually serve to ensure a faster Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) adoption.
Takes dual approach to next-gen Internet by promoting transit and content
Comcast continues to outpace rival U.S. cable companies in the development of next-generation Internet connectivity and content.
IPv6 is a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4.
Any manufacturers who want their devices to work on Verizon's upcoming Long Term Evolution network will have to give them the ability to support IPv6.
No letters from us, says RIPE NCC.
European companies are not being pressed to accelerate IPv6 deployment according to the European Internet registry.
YouTube recently announced it's discontinuing video delivery to certain geographies due to lack of access capacity
Many folks are familiar with the modeling we've done over the past few years highlighting the fact that Internet demand is outstripping capacity, specifically access capacity. The findings were, to put it mildly, controversial: We've been called everything from carrier shills to nut-jobs. (No, the research wasn't sponsored. And we never claimed your fillings were receiving extraterrestrial radio signals).
Security guru Scott Hogg says that IT executives can't ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present
Although he acknowledges that businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru Scott Hogg says that doesn't mean IT executives can ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present. After all, he notes, operating systems such as Microsoft Vista and Linux are already IPv6 capable and thus any networks that use them might be handling IPv6 traffic without their operators' knowledge.
Expecting the supply to dry up soon, ARIN will seek to verify that applications are legitimate.
The organization that assigns Internet addresses in the U.S. plans to raise the bar for getting them as the supply of IPv4 (Internet Protocol, version 4) addresses nears exhaustion, raising the specter of aggressive speculation on a soon-to-be-rare resource.
An informal canvass of some leading switch and router vendors found that customers use less than half of the systems' capabilities
It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities.