IPv6 was delivered with migration techniques to cover every conceivable IPv4 upgrade case, but many were ultimately rejected by the technology community, and today we are left with a small set of ...

Now available for download, the nRF51 IoT Software Development Kit (SDK) is a complete IPv6-ready Internet Protocol Suite for Nordic's market-leading nRF51 Series Bluetooth Smart SoCs. The SDK enables ...

Atmel Corp, Cisco (News - Alert) and the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) announced a collaboration to launch uIPv6, reportedly the smallest open-source IPv6-ready protocol stack. uIPv6 ...

A possible fix arrived in December 1995 in the form of RFC 1883, the first definition of IPv6, the planned successor to IPv4.

The IPv6 NDP provides a number of integrated key features for router and host operations, when attached to the same link. Some of these features, such as address resolution and redirect, are seen in ...

With the official exhaustion of IPv4 open-pool addresses in February, the long migration path to IPv6 has passed another important milestone. Since the IANA IPv6 worldwide deployment announcement in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IPv6, short for Internet Protocol Version 6, is the next-generation protocol designed by the IETF to replace the current version of Internet Protocol, Version 4 (IPv4). Most of today's Internet uses ...