The address space is the main difference between IPv4 (32-bit) and IPv6 (64-bit). The text representation has also been changed from a 2-digit partitioning for IPv4 to 4-digits for IPv6.

BERLIN, GERMANY: Many web surfers don't know it, but the introduction of new internet address standards might change the way they get online. Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the ...

There are no broadcast addresses at all in IPv6, even directed broadcasts (these were favorites of IPv4 hackers). In IPv6, multicast addresses serve the same purpose as broadcasts do in IPv4.The ...

Sucuri has published the results of performance tests it conducted to compare the response time of websites over IPv4 and IPv6.. It ran 1,000 tests at six locations – four in the US, two in the ...

The problem that the IETF is facing is that, despite the family resemblance, there is a very fundamental difference between IPv4 and IPv6: IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, while IPv6 uses 128-bit ...

In this paper, the authors evaluate and compare the performance of IP (IPv4 and IPv6), using OPNET as a simulation tool to compare them in terms of different criteria.

IPv4 was never intended to last forever, and by the mid-2000s, many experts optimistically believed IPv4 would be essentially retired by the 2010s, replaced by a vastly superior IPv6 protocol.

Ten years ago, this difference between IPv4 and IPv6 may have been met with a can-do attitude or perhaps resignation, but the peculiarities of IPv4 are now ingrained.

Detroit-based Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq: CPWR), the technology performance company, Wednesday announced that -- in recognition of World IPv6 day -- it released the industry's first free IPv6 Website ...

IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out ... What's The Difference Between IPv4 and IPv6? (.PDF Download) Dec. 17, 2015. ...