TalkingTech
The view from the top of IT with TechWorld Editor Rohan Pearce
We are in an awkward point in the history of the Internet. IPv4 address depletion has occurred yet we expect to use IPv4 for the next 15 to 20 years. Organizations see two paths before them. One alternative is to use continue to use IPv4 and expect to use multiple layers of network address translation (NAT) for many years to come. The other alternative is to start to use IPv6, however, the majority of enterprise organizations and content providers have not embraced the protocol.
By Scott Hogg | 14 February, 2012 03:47
Internode has become the first Australian broadband provider to make IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) available by default for new customers.
By Hamish Barwick | 18 January, 2012 12:12
Telstra begun its roll out of Internet Protocol Version six (IPv6) for enterprise, government and wholesale customers. BigPond customers won't be offered IPv6 at this stage.
By Hamish Barwick | 05 September, 2011 14:08
One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol on some of their key websites.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 10 June, 2011 07:07
The nation's largest telecom carriers, content providers, hardware suppliers and software vendors will be on the edge of their seats tonight for the start of World IPv6 Day, which is the most-anticipated 24 hours the tech industry has seen since fears of the Y2K bug dominated New Year's Eve in 1999.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 09 June, 2011 00:06
The Internet engineering community says its biggest mistake in developing IPv6 - a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol - is that it lacks backwards compatibility with the existing Internet Protocol, known as IPv4.
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | 26 March, 2009 08:09
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