The most important change from IPv4 to IPv6 was moving from 32-bit to 128-bit addresses, a decision that increased the available pool of IP addresses from around 4.3 billion to over 340 ...

1 day ago · IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world, but don't call it a failure (7 minute read) IPv6 is not backward-compatible with IPv4, and it doesn't add any major …

Mar 13, 2025 · Despite years of explosive growth, with more businesses and users online with each passing year, the transition to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) remains slow and steady …

Jul 29, 2025 · While this could have been structured differently, IPv6 still represents a vast improvement over 32-bit IPv4 addressing. The design was created nearly three decades ago, …

May 15, 2025 · IPv6 adoption stalls at 40% despite IPv4 exhaustion. Learn why the transition won't complete until 2045 and what can you do in the meantime.

Jul 15, 2025 · Yet it's still not gone, with most systems that have adopted IPv6 running a dual-stack configuration that also includes IPv4. I wondered if you could survive on just IPv6. …

Oct 22, 2024 · But at this stage, we were just not ready to deploy IPv6 in response. Instead, we rapidly increased our consumption of the remaining pools of IPv4 addresses and we supported …