Maintaining IPv4 is going to get expensive: expert


  • TECH
  • Monday, 29 May 2017

Companies dependent on the Internet for their businesses shouldn’t wait too long to migrate from IPv4 (Internet Protocal version 4) to IPv6.

Associate Prof Dr Omar Amer Abouabdalla said at the IPv6 Forum Malaysia that the cost of maintaining an IPv4 system is expected to go up significantly by 2018.

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Science & Technology , IPv4; IPv6

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