Across Africa, where less than a third of the population has access to broadband connectivity, achieving universal, affordable, and good quality internet access by 2030 will require an investment of US $100 billion. This is according to a report launched at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group, which calls for urgent action to …
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 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 …
Reports last week of security flaws in the wireless chips used in a wide range of Apple and Android mobile devices came hard on the heels of news that network-enabled toys are being used by hackers to access personal data. The flaw which was discovered by Google Project Zero security researcher, Gal Beniamini said that …
A new analysis by Beaming reports that the volume of attacks hitting individual company firewalls passed the 1,000 per day mark, on average, for the first time in November 2016. This indicated a 310 per cent increase in the volume of attacks seeking out Internet of Things devices between the first and final quarters of …
The exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses has been long coming, the biggest indicator was the September 2015 announcement by the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) that its pool of IPv4 addresses in North America was over. In a recent blog post, the Internet Architecture Board (IAB), that the pool of unassigned IPv4 addresses …
30 Years of Engineering the Internet This week marks the 30th anniversary of the meeting that became the very first edition of IETF meetings now held three times per year. On 16-17 January 1986 in San Diego, California, 21 people attended what is now known as IETF 1. Some names and topics found in the …
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’ …
Facing the shortage of IPv4 addresses, and glacial adoption of IPv6, UK ISP PlusNet is looking for volunteers among its customers to test out sharing the IPv4 addresses on its network. The technique being tested by PlusNet uses a NAT (Network Address Translator) to share a single internet-facing IP address between multiple customers, eking out …