The move to IPv6 is the largest transition in the history of the Internet. Major Internet service providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6.
IP addresses identify Internet-connected devices so they can communicate. The current IP version 4 (IPv4) can support about 4 billion unique addresses, but those that remain unassigned are becoming scarce. IPv6 expands the number of available addresses to roughly 340 trillion – supporting Internet growth for many years to come. Read more.
