Brocade, citing the major impact the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will have on service providers' ability to offer cloud-based services, this week introduced solutions for helping manage the ...

IPv6 was designed to be an evolutionary step from IPv4. It was not a design goal to take a radical step away from IPv4. Functions that work in IPv4 were maintained in IPv6, and those that didn't work ...

Like a dangerous intersection that has existed for years, sometimes it takes a death or other tragic warning to spur people to action. Such a warning came earlier this year, when the last of the ...

When the Internet Engineering Task Force finalized the IPv6 standard, experts thought the transition from IPv4 would be relatively smooth — similar to an operating system upgrade — but that's not the ...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, May 15, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- As organizations worldwide navigate the complex IPv4 to IPv6 transition, managing both address protocols ...

Lockheed Martin, a leading government contractor and systems integrator, is putting together a pilot project for switching from IPv4 to IPv6. The move from IPv4 to IPv6 is a move that, at is core, ...

The first thing you need to know is … don’t panic. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 will be nothing like the prospect of Y2K in 1998-1999. However, it is a migration issue that you need to keep up to ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

More than a decade ago—2003 to be precise—the Defense Department announced plans to convert its network to the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) standard. Today, the wait continues. Even the DOD ...

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 ...

The Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses—not at some point in the future, but <em>right now</em>. But the only solution to the problem, IPv6, is just now ...

IPv6 solves Internet scaling challenges, provides a flexible transition mechanism for the current Internet, and meets the needs of such new markets as mobile personal computing devices, networked ...