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 ...

The Internet Protocol (IP) will be moving to the new IP version 6 (IPv6) from the current IP version 4 (IPv4). IPv6 addresses IPv4 limitations, such as a quickly evaporating address space and a lack ...

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 ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

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 ...

The federal government has commenced initiatives to migrate its Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to (IPv6) in line with the standard used globally to enhance cybersecurity and guarantee the ...