The Internet's IPv4 clock keeps ticking down. As Robert Cannon, the FCC's senior counsel for Internet law, observed recently, "The original [Internet] address space, IPv4, is nearly exhausted." He's ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

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 University of New Hampshire, the U.S. Department of Defense and the North American IPv6 Task Force have joined forces to deploy the largest-ever network based on IPv6, the next-generation of the ...

This Windows network setting is designed to boost performance — but it could be why your videos keep buffering.

On Aug. 15, 2012, in one of the most devastating cyberattacks ever recorded, politically motivated hackers wiped the memory of more than 30,000 computers operated by the Saudi Aramco oil company in an ...

IPv6—the next-generation Internet protocol—isn’t keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should. Experts say that most U.S. organizations have hidden IPv6 ...

In a project that has taken longer than company engineers anticipated, Google is rolling out IPv6 across its entire internal employee network. Google network engineer Irena Nikolova discussed the ...

Business IT managers be forewarned: Implementing networks with the emerging Internet Protocol Version 6 standard will take substantial preparation, including training developers and IPv6 ...

If you are experiencing inexplicable network slowness -- either after an incremental Mac OS X update, Security update, or another change -- try toggling your IPv6 setting. In order to change this ...

An IPv6-based network linking 25 universities in 20 cities across China began operating on Saturday. The China Education and Research Network Information Center (CERNIC) announced the launch of the ...