Could the Web Run Out of Addresses By 2010?
November 5, 2009
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Upgrading to a newer IP address would help save the world from running out of addresses by 2010. But, from the report released by the European Commission, states that only 17% of 610 institutions surveyed have upgraded from the IPv4 protocol to IPv6.
Based on the current statistics, the IPv4 that uses 34bit can only support up to around 4.3 billion unique addresses. And if we upgrade to the newer IPv6, we would then have no worries that the web would run out of addresses. This is so experts review that the IPv6 uses 128bit can support a possible range of billions more compared to the IPv4.
For information purposes, every website is given its unique IP address such as “56.128.175.15″ , which is then represented by our simple text based url such as “www.wordpress.com“.
With limited addresses left for IPv4, businesses and organizations will have no choice but to adopt the IPv6 format in the future. Also, the migration from IPv4 to Ipv6 requires some spending to ensure that systems using the old IPv4 format can interface with the new IPv6. If the consumers decide to adopt the IPv6 format, most probably they will also need to change their domestic set-ups which might be changing the broadband router.
New users are advised to adopt to the IPv6 rather then IPv4 so as to avoid problems that would be faced in the future when all consumers are upgrading to IPv6.
