Tag Archive | "business case"
Business case, Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion
Part 2 In the previous part I explored why you should limber up to IPv6 sooner rather than later, and now here’s my experience actually walking the talk.
Importantly, mine is not a big-bang approach. I’m not trying to have everything perfect for IPv6 immediately, but rather I want to do just enough to be visible [...]
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The Internet is about to change in a major way. Though this change will be imperceptible to most users, businesses everywhere must begin equipping their networks now for a successful transition to IPv6.
Network communication, just like a face-to-face conversation, requires a common language for the successful transfer of information, says Wynand Moller, D-Link Country Manager.
The [...]
Business case, Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion
The hard reality that the Internet is running out of IPv4 addresses recently hit the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. You know what comes next: business executives get to wondering just how this IPv6 thing will impact their businesses.
You’d better, because the companies that provide your customers with Internet access are on the [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
IPv6 is the next generation of web addresses which will eventually replace the current IPv4 system. The reason this next generation of web addresses was designed is because we are running out of addresses.
IPv4 is a 32bit address.
It supplies about 4,294,967,296 (4.3 billion) addresses.
IPv6 is a 128bit address
It supplies an astonishing 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,770,000,000 addresses!
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Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
Are you ready for IPv6? If you hope to have enough web addresses to meet the needs of your clients, your answer should be a resounding, “Yes!” The reality in this web-hungry world, all carriers should be properly testing IP services to ensure they can support both IPv4 and IPv6 services at the same time. [...]
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There is a major housing shortage on the Internet.
Historically, every gizmo — PC, networked printer, IP telephone — that communicates with other gizmos over a computer network has been assigned its own, unique number (something like 172.17.60.22) called an IP address. That identifying number is how the InterWeb knows to display this blog post [...]
All news, Business case, Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion, Websites
It’s almost time to get serious about IPv6, sports fans, whether you like it or not. Are you ready? I’m not, but it’s not my fault.
Although numerous ways have been implemented to stretch the limited address space of IPv4–the “classic” dotted decimal that defined the gold rush days of the Internet–recent estimates indicate that the [...]
All news, Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
UK businesses must follow suit to compete on the global stage, say experts.
International banking group HSBC is upgrading its internet infrastructure to compete in Asia, while the US government has set a deadline of 2012 to upgrade its servers and services to IPv6, but experts warn that the UK could be left behind.
The UK [...]
All news, Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
It seems that there is an increasing level of interest in the topic of IPv4 address exhaustion, so I thought I’ll share a set of answers to the most common questions I’ve been asked on this topic in recent times.
1. What’s the most significant challenge to the Internet today?
What a wonderfully open-ended question! There are [...]
All news, Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
Sometime next year the Internet as we know it will run out of IP addresses. That’s why we have IPv6, but why are so few people using it?
It sounds like another Y2K type scenario doesn’t it? James Spenceley, the CEO of Vocus, says the analogy is closer to when we ran out of phone numbers. [...]
