Facebook said Thursday that it was offering “experimental, non-production” support for IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol. Google leading, but where do ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...

A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

Knowingly or not, enterprises employ IPv6 for many of their internet connections, and that means CASBs should support the protocol, too, in order to enforce policies on all customer traffic. Here's ...

It's been a quarter of a century since the first IPv6 standard was finalized as RFC 2460, and to say adoption has been slow is an understatement. The pool of available IPv4 addresses has been ...

Today, the last current-generation Internet addresses were divvied up at the highest level. Here's a look at what happens next in rebuilding the Net with the newer IPv6. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

Google has quietly turned on IPv6 support for its YouTube video streaming Web site, sending a spike of IPv6 traffic across the Internet that has continued from last Thursday until Monday. Industry ...

Skype, despite built-in advertising and no privacy guarantees is still a very popular Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) client. Indeed, Microsoft is replacing Windows Live ...

The internet’s been running on IPv4 for decades, but we’ve finally hit a wall – there just aren’t enough addresses to go around. IPv6 is the solution designed to handle the internet’s rapid expansion ...

YouTube confirmed that it now supports IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, in a blog post published Friday. “We ...