IPv6

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• Article | 27/09/2011 CloudFlare unveils free IPv6 translation service

  Startup CloudFlare is turning the economics of IPv6 transition on its head with a free cloud-based IPv6-to-IPv4 translation service that is available ...
• Article | 7/09/2011 IPv6 migration: Do it for the right reasons

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the subm...
• Article | 28/07/2011 Yahoo, Facebook,Google to IETF: Where are the IPv6 users

  Where are the users? That's what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are que...
• Article | 10/06/2011 IPv6 transition framework for the enterprise

  If all the excitement about IPv6 has finally convinced you to take a serious look at what's involved in the transition, you'll want to start with this...
• Article | 10/06/2011 Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial

  One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permane...
• Article | 9/06/2011 World IPv6 Day: Tech industry's most-watched event since Y2K

  The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the s...
• Article | 8/06/2011 Can't reach your favorite site? IPv6 may be to blame

  A small number of Internet users will experience delays or time-outs as they attempt to visit Facebook, Google, Yahoo and other popular websites tonig...
• Article | 7/06/2011 Hackers may try to disrupt World IPv6 Day

  Hundreds of popular websites -- including Google, Facebook, Yahoo and Bing -- are participating in a 24-hour trial of a new Internet standard called I...
• Article | 3/06/2011 8 security considerations for IPv6 deployment

  Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author's employer and has been edited and appro...
• Article | 25/05/2011 Cisco adds IPv6 migration features to routers

  Cisco this week rolled out products and services designed to ease the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 for enterprise customers.
• Article | 4/05/2011 Microsoft, Juniper urged to patch dangerous IPv6 DoS hole

  Security experts are urging Microsoft and Juniper to patch a year-old IPv6 vulnerability so dangerous it can freeze any Windows machine on a LAN in a ...
• Article | 3/05/2011 Free DNS service adds IPv6 support

  OpenDNS, one of the Internet's most popular free DNS services, is now offering production-grade support for IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main co...
• Article | 3/05/2011 25 years of communications: From anything-but-IP to all-IP

  Twenty-five years ago -- when Network World was born -- the Internet was only 3 years old itself. At that time, less than 2,500 hosts were connected t...
• Article | 15/04/2011 Asia out of IPv4 addresses

  The Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) has run out of all but a handful of IPv4 addresses that it is holding in reserve for start-up net...
• Article | 10/03/2011 IPv6 anytime soon? Don't bet on it

  There's maybe never been a better time to be a network engineer--that is, provided you have IPv6 experience. Businesses are crying out for individuals...