When the ITU-T IPv6 Group gets together in Geneva next week, one of the things they should discuss is the need for their very existence. For many decades, those of us with some longevity in the ...

A new IPv6 forum will be "soft-launched" at next week's IPv6 mini-conference, itself a prelude event to Linux.conf.au 2004 in Adelaide. IPv6, or Internet Protocol version 6, is the next-generation ...

WAYNE, N.J. — The Network Processing Forum this week will release tests for evaluating the performance of switch fabric devices and will expand its IPv4 forwarding benchmark into IPv6 territory. The ...

Almost two years ago, ZDNet ran an article entitled: "IPv6: It's about time." It seemed like IPv6 was ready for network prime time and would replace IPv4 as the dominant network protocol on TCP/IP ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – When the IPv6 group of the International Telecommunications Union’s telecommunications standardization sector (ITU-T) gets together in Geneva next week, one of the things they ...

One glaring problem with IPv4 is that it supports only 4.2 billion possible addresses while, by some estimates, the number of internet-connected devices is expected to grow to 28.5 billion by 2022.

Word around the net is that there's a new website technology that allows for a faster, safer web browsing experience, and it's called IPv6. As it turns out, this protocol isn't new at all, but instead ...