A joke in networking circles is that the switch from IPv4 to IPv6 is always a few years away. Although IPv6 was introduced in the early 90s as a result of the feared imminent IPv4 address drought ...

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 ...

In numbers, IPv6 can support up to 340 trillion trillion devices which is 2 to the 128th power for math geeks. The difference between IPv4 and IPv6 can be seen in the numbering system. IPv4 uses ...