United States’ largest IPv6 network welcomes rivals
08 Jul 2009
Little-known Hurricane Electric, the nation’s leading provider of IPv6 services, is bracing for new and bigger competitors entering the fray.
IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, known as IPv4. IPv6 features vastly more address space, built-in security and enhancements for streaming media and peer-to-peer applications. All carriers and enterprises must run IPv6 when IPv4 addresses are depleted, which is expected in 2011.
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