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 ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

Most of us live our digital lives behind a layer of Network Address Translation (NAT), where dozens of devices share a single public IPv4 address at home. IPv6 was officially standardized in 2017, 22 ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. Domains that ...

Have you learned to think and dream in hex yet? That is what you are going to have to look forward to as we transition to using IPv6. Because we will be working in hexadecimal numbers we may need a ...

Perhaps it’s not actually the longest story ever, but discussions about the cut-over from IPv4 to IPv6 have been going on for quite some time. So far, the adoption of IPv6 has been very slow, with ...

The Number Resource Organization warns that less than 10 percent of the IPv4 address space remains; it's time to start adopting IPv6. The warning comes after APNIC, the registry that hands out IP ...

The switch to IPv6 – on 6 June – shows just how imminent the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is. The 32-bit IPv4 address space can support 4.3 billion addresses and IPv4 addresses are running out. In ...

In this post, I will explain some of the basics that are easy to understand. Before we discuss the differences between IPv4 and IPv6, we need to know some of the basics of IPv4. Finally, I will ...

Like it or not, in the next few years every company will likely have to upgrade every device that is currently connected to its network. This is because of a fundamental technology shift that’s coming ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

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 ...