The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the number of available IPv4 addresses had slipped below 10 percent, with one service predicting that the available addresses will expire in a bit ...

It would have been so easy if the early Internet and TCP/IP network designers had made IPv6 backward compatible with IPv4. They didn't. In 1981, IPv4's 32-bit 4.3 billion addresses look more than ...

Shifting from IPv4 to IPv6 will take years and could be a bumpy ride. But few organisations will find the process as complicated as cloud computing providers, says Lori MacVittie. Not since the first ...

In addition to IPv4 (often written as just IP), there is IP version 6 (IPv6). IPv6 was developed as IPng (“IP:The Next Generation” because the developers were supposedly fans of the TV show “Star Trek ...

In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

The global transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has gained major traction, driven by the urgent need to accommodate a rapidly expanding number of internet-connected devices and the introduction of IPv6 ...

Many believe that warnings about the perils of running out of IPV4 addresses can safely be ignored–that like the Y2K machinations of the last century, they are much ado about nothing. After all, you ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) developedduring the mid-1970s, is the backbone of a family of protocols thatincludes TCP, UDP, RIP, and virtually every otherprotocol used for Internet communications. The ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. The Number Resource Organization warned Monday that the ...