There may be a pending
‘IPcalypse’ about to hit the internet as we prepare to run out of addresses for
new connections.
The internet address shortage is a little like addresses in city neighbourhoods, if the neighbourhood gets too large you need a new pool of addresses. Such analogies give some insight into the nature of the issue.
With the exponential growth in internet still continuing and emergence and gathering acceptance of new technologies such as VOIP it is essential to transition to an addressing scheme that can support the required number of devices.
While there is no doubt that the explosion of use of the internet has nearly exhausted the connections available under the current addressing scheme and its antecedents, plans to move to a larger addressing scheme have been around since 1995.
There is much debate about the difficulties of migration to a new internet addressing scheme and the challenges that this presents to all users of what has become arguably the most important piece of infrastructure on the planet – the internet.
The answer to the looming crisis is a large, technical migration to the next generation addressing standard – Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
The internet address shortage is a little like addresses in city neighbourhoods, if the neighbourhood gets too large you need a new pool of addresses. Such analogies give some insight into the nature of the issue.
With the exponential growth in internet still continuing and emergence and gathering acceptance of new technologies such as VOIP it is essential to transition to an addressing scheme that can support the required number of devices.
While there is no doubt that the explosion of use of the internet has nearly exhausted the connections available under the current addressing scheme and its antecedents, plans to move to a larger addressing scheme have been around since 1995.
There is much debate about the difficulties of migration to a new internet addressing scheme and the challenges that this presents to all users of what has become arguably the most important piece of infrastructure on the planet – the internet.
The answer to the looming crisis is a large, technical migration to the next generation addressing standard – Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).
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