Tag: Benefits of IPv6

The Benefits of IPv6

By William Donaldson on June 27, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

What is IPv6 IPv6 addresses use 8 sets of 4 hexadecimal addresses separated by a (:) colon. There are 16-bits in each set. An excellent example of an IPv6 Address would be fe80::2000:aff:fea7:f7c. The /64 bit on the end is from the IPv4 days and is called […]

The Many Benefits of IPv6

By William Donaldson on January 31, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )

Using IPv6 not only has the advantage of an increased number of usable IT addresses, but it also has several other improvements over the older IPv4. IPv6 offers more efficient routing that allows ISP’s to aggregate their networks’ prefixes into a single prefix and announces it to […]