Geoff Huston questions the goal of completely replacing IPv4 with IPv6. Thanks to CDNs and mobile traffic, address scarcity is no longer a major problem. If you talk to networkers about IPv6, there is ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

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 ...

BERLIN, GERMANY: Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new internet address standards might change the way they get online. Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the IPv4 ...

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...

Internet Protocol (IP) is the foundation of the internet, enabling communication between devices across the globe. Without an IP address, the Internet will simply not work because the data will not ...

After working on the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for a decade and a half, the Internet Engineering Task Force decided it was time to turn off the old protocol (IPv4 or just IP). So this is ...

Internet pioneer Huston questions the introduction of IPv6, which has provoked controversial reactions. Gert Döring weighs up pros & cons and advises: go for it Gert Döring has been working with IPv6 ...

A rapid growth of IP-based networks and services created the vast collection of resources. At the same time, advances in design of mobile electronic devices allowed them to reach utility level ...

We just saw that the mask determines where the boundary between the network and host portions of the IP address lies. This boundary is important: If it is set too far to the right, there are lots of ...