Rate your favorite Cisco Press books. Years of innovation and work to continuously improve various transport technologies and network elements led operators to have high expectations of their networks ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

Most migrations from IPv4 to IPv6 will occur gradually over networks that contain a mix of IPv4 and IPv6 routers and hosts. Companies wishing to facilitate the transition should ensure that all new ...

It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 ...