With the Internet running out of standard 32-bit IP addresses (known as IPv4), the switch to IPv6 – which offers 128-bit addresses – has been quietly underway for some time. Apple says this work has ...

Focused on silicon-efficient (low footprint) low-power 32-bit processors, Montpellier-based (France) Cortus is now targeting sensors and wearable electronics with two new embedded 32-bit processor IP ...

LiveBrianD asked the Networking forum what will happen to the Internet when we run out of IPv4 addresses. Every router, smart phone, or other device on the Internet must have its own Internet Protocol ...

When it became clear that 32-bit IP addresses just wouldn't cut it for a growing Internet, the Internet Engineering Task Force did what its name suggests and created a new version of IP. IPv6 has so ...

The purpose of the network layer is to help route messages between different local networks. Central to this layer is the concept of exclusive network addresses, where every terminal connected to the ...