Author : Abdulghader Fiaz Saad Abulkasim and Adi Afindi Ahmad

The IPv6 has been recently deployed to replace the implementation of IPv4 due to the predicted exhaustion regarding the space of IPv4 addresses. However, most service providers are reluctant in enabling IPv6 by default due to the poor performance and disruption to customer traffic. Therefore, this study used a network performance evaluation technique to investigate the usage of IPv6 network among the higher institution of learning in Malaysia as effective implementation of internet services becomes a necessity in the era in which higher education is regarded as a form of commodity through which quality higher education provider can make continual improvement and benchmarking. The result found that IPv6 network has not been widely used among the institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. Thus this research stands as a starting point on which future researchers, network engineers as well as network administrators can provide an update for monitoring and planning of work in the whole institutions of higher education.

Keywords: IPv4, IPv6, network performance evaluation technique and institute of higher education

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.5, No.2 (April-2015)