Features

• Expert to IT pros: Adopt IPv6 soon or be sorry later

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 18 January, 2012 08:36

  A dozen of the world's largest Internet companies - including Facebook, Google and Comcast - have committed to June 6, as the start date for their production deployments of IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Hackers target IPv6

  By Susan Perschke | 28 November, 2011 22:32

  If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

• Four ways IPv6 will save the Internet

  By Tony Bradley | 26 July, 2010 01:58

  The world is almost out of IP addresses--or at least it's almost out of the IPv4 addresses that IT admins and users are most familiar with. Fortunately, IPv6 has been developed to exponentially expand the pool of available IP addresses while also providing a few other benefits.

• Google's leading, but where do other Web giants stand on IPv6?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 05 February, 2010 08:01

  The most popular Web sites are under increasing pressure to add support for IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to IPv4, the Internet's main communications protocol.

• Will 2010 be the year of IPv6?

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 17 December, 2009 09:13

  Will IPv6 finally arrive stateside in 2010? That's the question U.S. ISPs and network equipment vendors are asking themselves after seeing a rise in IPv6 activity during the last six months of 2009.

• Invisible IPv6 traffic poses serious network threat

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 13 July, 2009 16:53

  IPv6 -- the next-generation Internet protocol -- isn't keeping too many U.S. CIOs and network managers up worrying at night. But perhaps it should.

• What's driving this university to IPv6? Going green

  By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 July, 2009 07:07

  Ave Maria University, a liberal arts college near Naples, Fla., is looking to adopt IPv6 across its two data centers and all of its facilities management systems, which are used for monitoring building access, temperature control and power management. The goal: improved energy conservation across its campus.

• IPv6 security guru fields questions

  By Brad Reed | 07 May, 2009 08:14

  Although he acknowledges that businesses have yet to embrace IPv6, security guru Scott Hogg says that doesn't mean IT executives can ignore the security problems that the next generation Internet protocol can present. After all, he notes, operating systems such as Microsoft Vista and Linux are already IPv6 capable and thus any networks that use them might be handling IPv6 traffic without their operators' knowledge.

• The Internet sky really is falling

  By Johna Till Johnson | 07 May, 2009 08:30

  Many folks are familiar with the modeling we've done over the past few years highlighting the fact that Internet demand is outstripping capacity, specifically access capacity. The findings were, to put it mildly, controversial: We've been called everything from carrier shills to nut-jobs. (No, the research wasn't sponsored. And we never claimed your fillings were receiving extraterrestrial radio signals).

• The 5 best router and switch features you never use

  By Jim Duffy | 01 April, 2009 07:06

  It's been said that Microsoft Word users only exploit 10% of the software's capabilities.