What is IPv6?

IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. It provides a vastly larger address space than IPv4, as well as improvements in security and network management. It is commonly used as the standard for routing traffic across the internet and within networks to allow devices to communicate with each other.