This won't come as any surprise to anyone in the network business, but Arbor Networks has just published a study of "native IPv6 traffic volumes across multiple large carriers" and found "only a small ...

What began as a 24-hour test a year ago will become business as usual on Wednesday as a range of big-name Internet companies permanently switch on the next-generation IPv6 networking technology. And ...

IPv4 addresses are essentially fully depleted. They have been for years, which means ISPs and other service providers have long been pushing cheaper IPv6 addresses to help the web continue expanding, ...

“Predicting is hard, especially about the future,” quips Vint Cerf — and he should know. That’s because about 30 years ago, when the now-famous engineer was helping to design the technology that ...

Today is the sixth anniversary of World IPv6 launch, but despite progress on the transition 'father of the internet' Vint Cerf thinks it's not moving fast enough. If you're an ISP or enterprise IT ...

Do not adjust your NIC: As of this morning, unbeknownst to you, you might be surfing the IPv6 internet. Your memorable, 4-to-12-digit IPv4 address may have been replaced by a gribbly IPv6 monster that ...

Facebook, Google, Yahoo and hundreds of the world's largest websites are now testing the enormously expanded internet address system, known as IPv6, in preparation for the time – expected within the ...

This week, the IETF is holding its 77th meeting in Anaheim, California. Last year around this time, the IETF met in San Francisco, and the Internet Society took advantage of this large gathering of ...

John Curran is CEO of ARIN, the American Registry for Internet Numbers, which provides management and administration for the IP addresses in the U.S., Canada and parts of the Carribbean. Today, the ...

The world is almost out of IP addresses–or at least it’s almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand ...