Tag Archive | "education"
IPv4 Exhaustion
The Internet promises unlimited connectivity, but such connectivity requires that computers and devices find one another through a common address plan. The current plan, in place since the late 1970s, is running out of open addresses, and a new scheme called IPv6 is being put in place to power the Internet’s next stage of growth.
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All news, Equipment
It is predicted that the pool of IPv4 addresses will be depleted within a year, possibly even before that. Every single ISP must upgrade its network to handle IPv6. IPv6 experts from CableLabs, the SCTE, Suddenlink and Incognito Software provided a rundown of recommended migration options, details about the specific subsystems in service provider networks [...]
Business case, Equipment, Telco
Hurricane Electric, the world’s leading IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider, today announced that its Director of IPv6 Strategy, Martin Levy, will be a speaker at the Digital Government Institute’s Next Generation Internet: How IPv6 Enables Agency Operations conference on September 17th in Washington, DC.
Martin Levy will be featured on an afternoon panel entitled “IPv6 [...]
IPv4 Exhaustion
Every machine that is connected to the internet needs a unique identification number, or IP address.
The problem is that with more and more people going online these “IP addresses” are running out, and could be exhausted as soon as 2011.
Furthermore, a new system that would significantly increase the number of addresses has been slow to [...]
Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion
My local area code (814) is running out of phone numbers. When discussing IPv6 with non-technical folks, I frequently use the hypothetical scenario of running out of phone numbers as an analogy for IPv4 address depletion. The conversation usually goes like this:
Imagine if we were running out of phone numbers. One way of solving that [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
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 [...]
Business case, Equipment, Government, IPv4 Exhaustion, Policy
Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, the not-for-profit organisation that supports the infrastructure of the Internet, explains the impact that country-wide broadband will have on this infrastructure in the UK.
The recently published Digital Britain report outlined the Government’s plan to equip every household in the UK with high-speed broadband by 2012. This will [...]
Business case, IPv4 Exhaustion
“Look out! The world is about to run out of network addresses.”
Business network users have been hearing this warning for some time. Is this a real concern, or is it simply a case of “the boy who cried wolf?”
The current Internet addressing scheme, commonly known as Internet Protocol version 4 or IPv4, was invented in [...]
Business case, Equipment, IPv4 Exhaustion
This article is to explain what is IPv6, how does it differ from IPV4, what was the necessity to come up with IPv6, a basic IPv6 address and its compositions, some conventions of IPv6, some features of IPv6 and also the advantages of using IPv6 over IPv4.
What is IPv6 and what was the need for [...]
IPv4 Exhaustion, Policy, RIRs
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) has launched a comic book series to further help raise awareness for the adoption of IPv6 and other matters dealt by the organization. The comic books, called “Team ARIN”, are fictionalized views of the organization, its processes, and the whole concept of Internet governance. “Though our heroes are [...]
