Ten years of IPv6 and how it's changed the internet [Q&A]

The IPv6 protocol reached its 10th birthday in June this year. By using more address bits than the earlier IPv4 it opened up the way for more connected devices. But IPv6 has other benefits too. We spoke to Akamai fellow and chief architect Erik Nygren to find out more about them and how they've changed the internet. BN: What issues was IPv4 presenting that IPv6 aimed to solve? EN: Fundamentally, IPv6 was introduced to address the scaling limitations of IPv4. While IPv4 only supports around 4 billion potential addresses due to being 32 bits, the 128-bit IPv6 has a nearly… [Continue Reading]