IPv6 Act Now

The world will run out of internet IP addresses in less than a year because of the explosion in smartphones, experts have warned. Inaction by internet providers could lead to broken applications and more expensive net connections. IP addresses do not refer to website domain names, but the unique sequence of numbers used to identify each [...]

The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, is running out of open addresses, and a new scheme called IPv6 is being put in place to power the Internet’s next stage of growth. For [...]

The running out of IPv4 address and the need to adopt IPv6 is being addressed around the world, although with not enough urgency. Sweden is in the same position as other countries, and the registry for .SE domain names, .SE, has found that neither the Swedish internet industry nor its business or public sector customers [...]

Businesses should be getting more familiar with IP Version 6 right now, to be prepared when the current protocol, IPv4, runs out of available addresses — something now likely to happen in 2012, the head of a regional Internet registry said today. John Curran, president and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers, the [...]

NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today that it will offer a high-standard service-level agreement (SLA) guaranteeing 100% network availability, as well as latency and packet loss levels, to customers using IPv6 services provided on NTT Com’s global Tier IP backbone network beginning July 1. If the services do not achieve the quality levels guaranteed under the [...]

Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, the not-for-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet, explains the impact that country-wide broadband will have on this infrastructure in the UK. The recently published Digital Britain report outlined the Government’s plan to equip every household in the UK with high-speed broadband by 2012. This will [...]

Internet addresses are running out. What’s New Zealand doing about it? It’s no news that the pool of available Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses is running out. Thanks to the internet growing rapidly with increased broadband uptake, legacy over-allocations of blocks and with no effort to conserve remaining routable IPv4 address space, estimates say by [...]

This Government Insights report tracks major IPv6 “influencers” by global region, including government groups, industry consortiums, equipment manufacturers, telecom carriers, educational organizations, and key technology leaders. Governments around the world are in a unique position to help their citizens prepare for the coming global transition to IPv6 by making sure that their own networks are [...]

Business incentives are completely lacking today for upgrading to IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, according to a survey of network operators conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC). In a new report, ISOC says that ISPs, enterprises and network equipment vendors report that there are “no concrete business drivers for IPv6.” However, survey respondents said customer demand [...]