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 ...

It is no secret that the 4 billion-plus Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) addresses are just about used up. According, the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), “phase 4” of its IPv4 ...

Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that's a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...

Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is here for real. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has set a deadline of Sept. 30 for government agencies to give employees the capability to access the ...

National broadband provider iiNet today said it was well advanced in its planning for the expected Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) address global shortage, and the shift to version 6 of the ...

Behind every laptop or tablet that goes online, behind every web address, behind every stack of servers, there's an IP address. These strings of numbers and dots act as unique identifiers for the ...

In the ever-evolving digital landscape, IPv4 addresses have become a crucial commodity. With the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses due to the rapid expansion of internet usage, businesses and individuals ...

The few blocks of Internet addresses yet to be allocated under the old IPv4 protocol seem to be home to some “hotspots” of unwanted traffic that anyone who gets the addresses would have to pay for, a ...

With the demise of Apple's own networking protocol AppleTalk, Apple's products are suffering from the same issue as anyone else's: the Internet is running out of addresses. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, ...

Almost from inception, the adoption and usage of the internet have grown at a rapid rate. Various sources estimate a growth rate of around 9% per year to nearly 5 billion users in 2021, more than ...