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IPv6 and the transition from IPv4 explained

IPv6 and the transition from IPv4 explained

The Internet Assigned Name Authority IANA) handed out the LAST IPv4 address space in Feb of 2011. The Internet’s ability to function is predicated upon each device having a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address and thus, a new address schema called IP version 6, or...

How to View IP Addresses as Emojis (with Source Code)

How to View IP Addresses as Emojis (with Source Code)

A couple of weeks ago on April 1st, we unveiled our latest revolutionary product, ProVision Millennial Edition, which allows you to view all your IP addresses in emoji format. Okay, so, we didn’t actually release a version of ProVision for millennials. Welcome to...

Measuring IPv6 Traffic with NodeJS and Google Analytics

Measuring IPv6 Traffic with NodeJS and Google Analytics

Some Questions That Keep Us Up At Night Recently we found ourselves wondering - how many of our website’s visitors are capable of utilizing IPv6 traffic? Of course, there are a number of places out there where you can see global IPv6 adoption rates [link] and other...

Automated Network Management Strategies

Automated Network Management Strategies

Updated July 24, 2020 Network Management has only become more complex over recent years. Information technology has increased in terms of business need, relating even more to competitiveness and organizational success. An economic downturn means that IT investments...

From IPv4 to IPv6

Making the Transition from IPv4 to IPv6 represents an important crossroads for growing technology companies. Leverage our team's depth of expertise to avoid the pitfalls that are inherent to legacy solutions. TCP/IP is the technology that devices use to interact...

100% IPv4 Utilization

100% IPv4 Utilization is a short term solution. We outline the problems encountered by those who have have forged head with insufficient research. 6Connect makes transitions an opportunity for improvement, instead of an invitation to crisis. There has been increasing...

Why IPv6 Matters

From multiple wireless devices per person, to massively dynamic virtualization, to the vision for a "smart" energy-efficient home and much, much more, everything in the entire world is becoming "connected" and this is giving rise to the "Evernet." But this can't...

What is Internet Protocol Address Management?

Goal: The number of web-based devices is expanding at an exponential clip, virtualization is making a very static environment dynamic, and now with the exhaustion of IPv4 and the oncoming complexities of IPv6- network operators must reevaluate what IP Address...

Software as a Service for Network Management

Software as a service can be best defined as using a hosted solution for software applications. It is called a service because the application, its access, and everything to do about its administration is hosted with another company offsite. The only concern of the...

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