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 ...

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 ...

I’ve written about IPv6 address design previously, and in that post I briefly touched on the fact that our long-ingrained habits of IPv4 address design can lead us astray when working with IPv6. I’d ...

Wireless sensor networks develop very rapidly today. In such circumstances, wireless sensor networks attract more and more people’s attention. And wireless sensor networks are widely applied in many ...

The time for IPv4 to IPv6 transition has finally arrived after more than a decade of forewarning. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) allocated the last freely available ...

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 ...

IPv6—the next-generation Internet protocol—isn’t keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should. Experts say that most U.S. organizations have hidden IPv6 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I'm looking for more information about having IPv4-only devices (embedded, legacy, etc) on a network that is otherwise IPv6-only, with IPv6-only Internet access. It's academic at this point, but I can ...