Internet Protocol
Version 6 (IPv6)
People refer to IPv6 as the “next-generation Internet protocol,”
and it was originally created as the answer to IPv4’s inevitable,
looming address-exhaustion crisis. Though you’ve probably
heard a thing or two about IPv6 already, it has been improved even further in the quest to bring
you the flexibility, efficiency, capability, and optimized functionality that can truly meet your
ever-increasing needs. The capacity of its predecessor, IPv4, pales in comparison—and that’s
the reason it will eventually fade into history completely.
The IPv6 header and address structure has been completely overhauled, and many of the
features that were basically just afterthoughts and addendums in IPv4 are now included as
full-blown standards in IPv6. It’s seriously well equipped, poised, and ready to manage the
mind-blowing demands of the Internet to come.