IPv4 is running out of steam and companies are finally starting to switch to IPv6. So what is the difference between the two and why should you be using IPv6.

Additionally, IPv6 includes built-in security features and QoS support, which were not present in IPv4.

The problem that the IETF is facing is that, despite the family resemblance, there is a very fundamental difference between IPv4 and IPv6: IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses, while IPv6 uses 128-bit ...

Since the supply of usable addresses governed by the IPv4 standard ( internet protocol, version 4) has been exhausted, IPv6 has now been introduced. This will allow a previously impossible variety ...

However, before shifting to IPv6 completely, it’s important to look at the main differences between IPv4 and IPv6.

In IPv6, multicast addresses serve the same purpose as broadcasts do in IPv4.The difference between IPv6 anycast and multicast is that packets sent to an anycast IPv6 address are delivered to one of ...

Migration has been gradual, but the move to IPv6 could speed up with IPv4 addresses running out The argument about how best to upgrade the Internet’s main communications protocol raged in the ...

Ten years ago, this difference between IPv4 and IPv6 may have been met with a can-do attitude or perhaps resignation, but the peculiarities of IPv4 are now ingrained.

Sucuri has published the results of performance tests it conducted to compare the response time of websites over IPv4 and IPv6. It ran 1,000 tests at six locations – four in the US, two in 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 ...