As of 2010 no more available IP addresses
07 Jul 2009
Today’s internet uses a protocol which is now nearly twenty years old. The protocol is used to transmit data, voice and voice packets over the internet. Age is not the biggest problem for the current internet but shortage of IP addresses which are needed by all new machines added to the Internet. IPv4 the old internet protocol had about 4 billion available addresses and running out because of the increasing number of internet servers, individual computers and devices such as mobile phones.
IPv6 provides an almost infinite number of new addresses that can easily absorb this growth with much larger address space than IPv4. The most obvious improvement in IPv6 over IPv4 is that IP addresses are lengthened from 32 bits to 128 bits. IPv6 also improves an IP (Internet Protocol) network’s capabilities for security and system management.
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