| IPv6 Is Here to Stay | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Friday, June 08, 2012 - 11:14 AM | |||
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You’ve likely been hearing rumblings about IPv6—the standard that will replace the old way of identifying devices on the Internet—since as long ago as the late 1990s. Even back then, network engineers foresaw that the current addressing system, IPv4—with its nearly 4.3 billion possible addresses—would some day be insufficient to support the 10 billion or so routers, servers, PCs, iPhones and Xboxes that are now being connected. | ||
| Complete info at IEEE Spectrum. | |||