Internet service providers (ISPs) are running out of public IPv4 addresses and want to move away from IPv4 in their internal network. Mapping of Address and Port with Encapsulation (MAP-E), an IPv6 ...

EMC Corp. announced that the discovery and mapping capability within its EMC Smarts network management software family will work in IPv6 settings. EMC is one of the first management software vendors ...

IPv6 has been one of the hottest topics of 2011. The heat around this subject was kindled with ICANN ‘s announcement that they’d depleted their IPv4 addresses by issuing their last two /8’s but ...

IPv6 has been gaining traction since it was developed in the late 1990s, and enterprises that are implementing it now are considered to be among the early majority – meaning widespread adoption is ...

Long on the back burner, IPv6 adoption is reaching a slow boil as the stock of current IP addresses runs dry. Alan Joch has been an independent business and technology writer for more than a decade.

The time for IPv4 to IPv6 transition has finally arrived after more than a decade of forewarning. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last freely available ...

The co-authors of Global IPv6 Strategies were the guests for a live Network World chat where they discussed all things IPv6. Bechtel’s Fred Wettling, ArchRock’s Patrick Grossetete, and Cisco’s Ciprian ...

At last, a small set of unicast addresses have been defined for special use. They do not carry a scope, so they are discussed independently of the other unicast addresses. Two basic addresses carry ...

My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

The USGv6 Profile and NIST v6 Profile have been updated for the first time in 10 years. Learn about what changes were made and how government agencies need to move forward ensuring adherence to these ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...