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What is IPv6
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Friday October 22, 2010
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Friday October 22, 2010
If you've come across the terms
IPv6 or IPv4
, you might have wondered what they are and what they are used for. Well in this episode, we tell youwhat IPv6 is
and why the currentInternet Protocol
, IPv4, is causing us torun out of IP addresses
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Windows Media Show Notes
- IPv6 is an abbreviation for Internet Protocol version 6.
- IPv4 is the version currently in place and still in use.
- IPv4 is based on a 32-bit system that provides approximately 3.4 billion IP addresses.
- With the expansion of the Internet and the huge number of devices that use IP addresses, we are rapidly running out.
- So IPv6 is a new system, which will, among other things, increase the number of available IP addresses by a huge amount.
- IPv4 is the version currently in place and still in use.
- IPv4 is based on a 32-bit system that provides approximately 3.4 billion IP addresses.
- With the expansion of the Internet and the huge number of devices that use IP addresses, we are rapidly running out.
- So IPv6 is a new system, which will, among other things, increase the number of available IP addresses by a huge amount.
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