IPv6 is the replacement for the current internet protocol standard, IPv4, and allows significantly more web addresses. The number of numeric addresses is dwindling under IPv4, with the exhaustion ...

If you work in the federal space you have been mandated to buy equipment that is IPv6 capable so your entire infrastructure might be made up of equipment that can run this protocol. Hackers have ...

IPv6 is needed because the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses.IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support approximately 4.3 billion individually addressed devices on the Internet.

“We are working toward a true IPv6 capability.” Strance says NIPRNET will not be an operational IPv6-capable network by June 30, despite the agency having worked on IPv6 transition for five years.

In light of recent studies that say the government is not moving aggressively enough toward adoption of Internet Protocol Version 6, the Office of Management and Budget is preparing a policy to ...

The selection of IPv6 advances the dramatic development of the Internet by conveying 340 undecillion addresses, compared to ...

Here’s how I recently built an IPv6-capable router/firewall in a few hours with junk lying around my office. What you’ll need to get started. First off, you’ll need a piece of hardware.

Software vendors’ proactive approach to IPv6 has created a glaring security hole for companies that think they haven’t activated the next-generation Internet addressing protocol yet, Cisco ...

While only 38 percent of the IT infrastructures at defense agencies currently include IPv6-capable equipment and related services, that is expected to rise to 87 percent by 2011, ...

As the number of available IPv4 addresses dwindle, operators are getting ready to ramp up the roll-out of IPv6 and World IPv6 Day, on Wednesday, will help the industry root out any problems.

Jim Bound, Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force, CTO of the IPv6 Forum and a Senior HP Fellow, has been pushing the IPv6 boulder up the network hill for more than a decade. Bound doesn’t ...

The updated IPv6 Standard Profile provides a technical and standards based definition of interoperability requirements for IPv6-capable products to be used in DOD networks.