RIPE, The organisation that allocates new IP addresses across in Europe, the Middle East and parts of central Asia has announced that it has exhausted its IPv4 addresses. “We have now run out of IPv4 addresses,” said The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) in Amsterdam, which allocates IP addresses across 76 countries to ISPs …
The US state of California has passed a law that would be the strictest net neutrality protections in the country, and could serve as a blueprint for other states. Under the law, internet service providers will not be allowed to block or slow specific types of content or applications, or charge apps or companies fees …
Microsoft backtracked on its plan to migrate its internal wireless guest network to IPv6-only. Veronika McKillop, Network Architect at Microsoft, in a post on Monday says: Unfortunately, we had to stop this work because we came across something that the previous internal testing had not uncovered — a team member attended a conference where Internet …
IPv6 is the next generation Internet Protocol (IP) address standard intended to supplement and eventually replace IPv4, the protocol many Internet services still use today. It was launched 6 years ago, on 6 June 2012. The global IPv6 traffic has grown more than 5000% since World IPv6 Launch began, with some networks now reporting 80 or …
IPv6 deployment is increasing around the world, with over 9 million domain names and 23% of all networks advertising IPv6 connectivity. IPv6 deployment of increased by 3,000% since the beginning of World IPv6 Launch 5 years ago, according to the ISOC State of IPv6 Deployment 2017. shows IPv6 deployment is increasing around the world, with …
Companies dependent on the Internet for their businesses shouldn’t wait too long to migrate from IPv4 (Internet Protocal version 4) to IPv6. Associate Prof Dr Omar Amer Abouabdalla said at the IPv6 Forum Malaysia that the cost of maintaining an IPv4 system is expected to go up significantly by 2018. “Maintaining the old version is …
IPv6 is 20 years old and the milestone has been celebrated with 10 percent adoption across the world for the first time. The idea that IPv6 remains so far behind its saturated incumbent, IPv4, is horrifying given that three continents ran out of IPv4 addresses in 2015. Unfortunately, because the product isn’t ‘end of life’ …
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has issued the final IPv4 addresses in its free pool, this effectively means that the ARIN no longer holds any IPv4 addresses. Due to depletion of its IPv4 Free Pool, ARIN is no longer able to fulfill requests for IPv4 address space unless you are an organization requesting …
Johannesburg – Data loss costs South African businesses over R3bn according to technology storage and hardware solutions firm EMC. Data loss involves computer information being destroyed by the likes of human error, file corruption or theft. And EMC this month has revealed its Data Protection Index which ranks 24 countries on the maturity of their …