News (46)

  • Rocky road ahead for IPv6

    Microsoft needs IPv6 for its future peer-to-peer plans, and network companies and LAN administrators are simply not adopting it.

  • Largest IPv6 network launched in China

    An IPv6-based network linking 25 universities in 20 cities across China began operating on Saturday.

  • ICANN: IPv4 will run out by 2011

    Big businesses need to start planning now to handle changes that will take place when a new version of the Internet's fundamental routing protocol becomes ubiquitous, or risk losing online customers, according to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

  • IPv6 migration begins as ICANN updates servers

    The great migration from IPv4 to IPv6 has officially begun, after the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), added the first addresses to its root servers that conform to the new version of the Internet protocol.

  • ICANN readies for next-generation Net

    The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers last week said it was ready to start assigning Internet addresses using the latest version of Internet Protocol, IPv6.

Features and Case Studies (21)

  • Vint Cerf: Net's moving into Iron Age

    ICANN chairman and MCI Senior Vice President Vint Cerf shares his hopes for the Internet's future.

  • Who guards the guards: Security

    Who predicted the death of the password -- and spam? Why is PKI not ubiquitous? Who makes these daft predictions anyway? ZDNet.com.au looks at how the security market was supposed to shape up, according to so-called "experts".

  • IPv6: What is it and why is it needed?

    IPv6 is coming. It's only a matter of time. Here's a look at this new version of the Internet's most fundamental protocol, as well as a peek at the IPv6 support built into Windows XP and .NET and a list of applications that currently support IPv6.

  • IPv6: time to change?

    Keeping the current version of Internet Protocol, the world will run out of IP addresses by 2007. So is it time to move to IPv6? ZDNet Australia investigates.

  • Networking: What can you expect in 2008?

    During the holiday season, snow isn't the only thing analysts shovel. With that in mind, senior analyst at the Enterprise Strategy Group, Jon Oltsik, takes a look forward on networking technology and related industry trends in 2008.

Reviews (20)

  • Microsoft adds P2P tools for Windows

    Microsoft is beefing up the peer-to-peer capabilities for its Windows XP operating system.

  • Web-enabled lamp casts light on IPv6

    Matsushita has announced a desk lamp that sets up an IPv6 Internet address and can be controlled through a local area network.

  • First Take: Apple Mac OS X 10.3 Panther

    Panther, a.k.a. Mac OS X 10.3, offers beefed-up compatibility with Windows networks and support for IPv6 networking.

  • Exchange Server 2007 SP1

    Service Pack 1 (SP1) reinstates a lot of the functionality that Microsoft left out in order to get Exchange Server 2007 out of the door last year.

  • Microsoft Windows Vista SP1

    A little more than one year after its release, Windows Vista will receive its first service pack update in March. Microsoft says the pack will offer better compatibility with third-party hardware, increased reliability, tighter security, and better performance. Our tests disagree.

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