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 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.
In the early days of the Internet, there was a period when Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses (e.g. 4.4.4.4) were given out like cotton candy to anyone who asked. But these days companies ...
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 ...
In recent times, the two technologies that jointly brought ubiquitous online connectivity to the world have confronted existential difficulties brought on by their own success. IPv4 (Internet Protocol ...
Big businesses need to start planning now to handle changes that will take place when a new version of the internet's fundamental routing protocol becomes ubiquitous, or risk losing online customers, ...