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The Internet has grown rapidly, even faster than many believed it ever would and we’re seeing a substantial increase in demand for more IP addresses as devices such as smartphones, tablets and more become connected to the Internet. The Internet as we know it mainly consists of Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), but recently, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) assigned the last remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses. This means the IANA cannot assign any new IPv4 addresses. Of course, the Regional Internet Registry still has a small remaining block of IPv4 addresses but these will be depleted over the course of this year in order to support the increasing number of devices connected to the Internet. For this, all of networks will need to deploy Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) instead of IPv4 in near future. |
