News

• IPv6: Dual-stack strategy starts at the perimeter

  By Scott Hogg | 14 February, 2012 03:47

  We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One alternative is to use continue to use IPv4 and expect to use multiple layers of network address translation (NAT) for many years to come. The other alternative is to start to use IPv6, however, the majority of enterprise organizations and content providers have not embraced the protocol.

• Internode turns on IPv6 for new customers

  By Hamish Barwick | 18 January, 2012 12:12

  Internode has become the first Australian broadband provider to make IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) available by default for new customers.

• Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 June, 2011 07:07

  One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites.

• World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 09 June, 2011 00:06

  The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the start of World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999.

• Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 08 June, 2011 05:03

  A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonight and tomorrow, due to a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called IPv6.

• Small ISPs losers as APNIC exhausts IPv4

  By James Hutchinson | 15 April, 2011 12:27

  Developing economies and small ISPs are expected to be hardest hit by an Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address rationing policy enacted this week by the Asia Pacific regional registry.

• Brocade adds IPv6 to core switching platform

  By Rodney Gedda | 23 March, 2011 09:35

  Networking vendor Brocade has announced an upgrade to its core switching software which increases performance and adds IPv6 support.

• Why you shouldn't worry so much about IPv6

  By Bruce Gain | 05 February, 2011 05:42

  A critical juncture in history arrived this week as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned the last IPv4 addresses to the five regions of the world's Regional Internet Registries.

• No more IPv4 addresses

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 02 February, 2011 02:35

  The Internet has run out of IPv4 address space.

• Global IPv6 test flight geared for 8 June, 2011

  By Tim Lohman | 13 January, 2011 10:24

  Internet heavyweights Google, Facebook, Yahoo! are among a number of major Web companies in support of World IPv6 day, slated for 8 June 2011.

• Run on IPv4 addresses could exhaust supply by December

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 June, 2010 01:52

  The remaining pool of unallocated IPv4 addresses could be depleted as early as December due to unprecedented levels of broadband and wireless adoption in the Asia Pacific region, experts say.

• New IPv6 testing tool ships

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 27 April, 2010 07:04

  Mu Dynamics announced on Monday a test suite for IPv6 that custom generates tests based on the user's existing IPv4 network traffic rather than from pre-determined, standard test cases.

• Australia leads the way in IPv6 adoption: OECD

  By Dahna McConnachie | 14 August, 2009 12:26

  Australia is one of the countries leading the way in IPv6 adoption, according to an Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) report which calls for more network operators to follow its lead as IPv4 is running out.