ANALYSIS – World IPv6 Day is here, and with it many ISPs, websites and manufacturers are now supporting IPv6, the next generation network protocol of the internet. For many users, though, the questions of what, when and why still await answers. Everyone in networking knows that they should be switching to IPv6. The Internet Engineering …

The worldwide use of the internet’s new addressing system IPv6 has increased, findings from BT indicate. The broadband provider’s Diamond IP IPv6 Industry Survey discovered that 13 per cent of organisations have already rolled out the application across either part or all of their networks, marking a sharp rise from the five per cent that …

Did you notice anything odd with your Internet connection today? Probably not, but the Internet started changing in a big way under the hood, with websites and Internet service providers turning on a new technology to transmit data. The Internet’s been running on a system that was originally developed 35 years ago as part of …

Major Internet Service Providers, home networking equipment manufacturers and web companies around the world are permanently enabling Internet Protocol Version 6 for their products and services today, following last year’s successful test run on World IPv6 day. As the successor to the current Internet Protocol, IPv4, IPv6 is seen as being critical to the internet’s …

Safaricom is looking to the future to hold its lead in the region in broadband services. As the internet nears the end of its Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) address pool, Internet Service Providers, mobile operators and user organisations alike, are looking to make the transition to the new generation called IPv6. These protocols provide …