Zivaro Blog / IPv6

It is human nature to be curious about where you stand in relation to others. For example, organizations can be competitive and thus interested in making comparisons between their organization …

In a recent article, I wrote about some of the common questions that IPv6 novices sometimes ask. We then asked the question, “What are the typical questions you get when …

Even though IPv6 has been around since the late 1990s and is now actively used on the Internet, I still meet people who are just beginning to learn about IPv6 …

Imagine what it was like to be an ancient mariner navigating the ocean blue at night using nothing more than stars, a sextant and a marine chronometer. Thankfully, navigating the …

There have been many IPv6 conferences over the past 15 years, but this year’s North American IPv6 Summit was something special. There was much rejoicing over the growth in IPv6 …

There are many reasons why an organization would want to make their web site reachable over IPv6 transport. One reason is that due to IPv4 address exhaustion and more carriers …

Nomenclature in computer and networking technologies can often be confusing and sometimes even funny. We IT people have crazy ways of naming things and we frequently use acronyms and initialisms …

In the first part of this blog series we covered the rationale behind why organizations may prefer to run a single-protocol IPv6-only core. However, service providers must continue to provide …

In the first part of this 3-part blog series, we discussed how IPv4 will soon become a legacy protocol. In a few years, IPv6 Internet traffic volumes will surpass IPv4 …

Declaring IPv6 a Standard and Declaring IPv4 Historic 2016 has witnessed IPv6 adoption continuing at an amazing rate. Even though IPv6 adoption has been doubling every year for the past …