IPv6: the new platform
03 Feb 2010
The Internet has arguably shrunk the world. The number of websites, the kind of information that is created and accessed everyday is enormous. While the web business is booming, the crunch of IP addresses is becoming a huge challenge, which the industry stalwarts have long been warning about. The current version of IP addresses allotted to websites – IPv4 – has been the base for the Internet for the past forty years. But it is almost getting exhausted. By 2011-12, the IPv4 platform will have already run out of its IP addresses.
India is the second largest telecom market in the world, and this is definitely going to create a huge demand in the Internet industry, with the rapid growth of broadband and wireless technologies pushing the demand for IP addresses in India.
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