Many cable companies have already made the switch and will provide customers with access to their IPv6 servers and addresses immediately.

The IPv6 transition is here and the move from IPv4 to IPv6 can be a big opportunity for the IT channel. Check out CRN's IPv6 tutorial, IPv6 security coverage and more.

IPv6’s primary goal is to increase the Internet’s address space, but the protocol also has some enhancements, including autoconfiguration, easier network renumbering and built-in security ...

IPv6 addresses are denoted by eight groups of hexadecimal quartets separated by colons in between them. IPv6 networks themselves use Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) notation.