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There is no Plan B: why the IPv4-to-IPv6 transition will be ugly
Posted by: Jordi on Sunday, October 03, 2010 - 12:51 PM
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Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that's a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the Internet. By this past summer, that number had risen to 769 million and this only counts systems that have DNS names. The notion of a computer that is not connected to the Internet is patently absurd these days.
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