IPv6

Features

• Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 January, 2012 08:36

  A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Hackers target IPv6

  By Susan Perschke | 28 November, 2011 22:32

  If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

• Four ways IPv6 will save the Internet

  By Tony Bradley | 26 July, 2010 01:58

  The world is almost out of IP addresses--or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand the pool of available IP addresses while also providing a few other benefits.

• Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01

  The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.