What you need to know about IPv6 migration
06 Jul 2011
IPv6 is essential to the continued growth of the internet, due to its vastly expanded addressing space.
Early adoption sectors include markets with strong growth in residential broadband, such as India and China, cable TV providers looking to deliver IP entertainment content to the home and mobile operators growing their population of IP end points, such as smartphones.
Between them, these environments require hundreds of millions of new IP addresses that are simply not available in IPv4, forcing providers to use IPv6.
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