This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note that it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. The IPv6 movement has been ...

It’s not always a straightforward matter to extend IPv4 tools to manage dual-stack IPv4-IPv6 networks. In this blog we’ll look at network device management tasks within the “FCAPS” model framework to ...

The Internet's IPv4 clock keeps ticking down. As Robert Cannon, the FCC's senior counsel for Internet law, observed recently, "The original [Internet] address space, IPv4, is nearly exhausted." He's ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

Like a dangerous intersection that has existed for years, sometimes it takes a death or other tragic warning to spur people to action. Such a warning came earlier this year, when the last of the ...

An IPv6-based network linking 25 universities in 20 cities across China began operating on Saturday. The China Education and Research Network Information Center (CERNIC) announced the launch of the ...

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 ...

Yesterday, technical architect Cameron Byrne announced that T-Mobile has completed the deployment of IPv6 services across its entire network. This isn't the first IPv6 network, but it is the largest ...

On Aug. 15, 2012, in one of the most devastating cyberattacks ever recorded, politically motivated hackers wiped the memory of more than 30,000 computers operated by the Saudi Aramco oil company in an ...

One of Microsoft's goals in creating Windows Vista was to drive the move toward IPv6. IPv6 is the next-generation Internet protocol that is designed to replace IPv4, which is the standard Internet ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — The second test phase of the Moonv6 network, the world's largest multivendor IPv6 network, demonstrated the ability of the IPv6 spec to operate with most network elements as well as ...

China aims to become the leading player in the creation of the next generation of the Internet with the launch of an Internet Protocol version 6-based network linking 25 universities in 20 cities ...