Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

OpenFlow is a Software-Defined Networking (SDN) protocol used for southbound communications from an SDN controller to and from a network device. OpenFlow is the protocol used to inform the topology of ...

IPv6 proponents have formed a council of corporate network managers that will study how best to deploy IPv6 in business environments. IPv6 is a long-awaited upgrade to the Internet’s main ...

The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections into homes. “A ...

I'm looking at transitioning a SMB network to IPv6 but am a little confused as to where I start. The idea of stateless IPv6 seems to be the way the protocol was designed but then it doesn't make sense ...

IPv6 has been an approved standard for over a decade now. But its adoption has suffered from lack of a compelling reason to deploy it. Since the future scalability of the Internet depends on our ...

The technology's benefits won't be obvious in the first year, so advocates should encourage agency executives to focus on the future, according to panelists at an IPv6 conference. The best way to ...

My whole life, I've never worried about ipv6. I know what it is, and why it's important, but for my local networks, it's just been easier to keep using ipv4. My current setup is pretty basic: I have ...

You’ve probably heard about the looming shortage of Internet addresses, even if you’ve never gone looking for one. But depending on what websites you visit and how you get to them, you may be helping ...

Apple is encouraging developers to prioritize newer web technologies inside their iOS and macOS applications. In a short technical presentation at the WWDC 2020 conference last week, Apple shared some ...

According to Microsoft, if you want to enjoy the best possible Xbox One gaming experience, you should use IPv6. The Xbox One natively supports IPv6, but finding an ISP that will give you an IPv6 ...

The IRS has fallen short in meeting a critical governmentwide modernization priority, a new watchdog report found, potentially undercutting the agency’s ability to “meet evolving business needs” and ...