Yesterday was World IPv6 day and a few companies and ISPs made the big move to IPv6. It’s considered to be a really big move for the Internet, but there have been many companies who haven’t made the move, just yet. The reason IPv6 is being adopted is because of the problem of IP address shortage. There is a limitation on the number of IPs that can be supported by the existing IPv6 standard and going by the increasing number of devices, the web is going to run out of IP addresses this year. IPv6 is here to provide a solution to this problem. It requires the entire Internet, which is a lot of connections, everything from devices to service providers to switch to the new standard. The IPv6 standard can support some 340000000000000000000000000000000000000 IP addresses, which means that you can have these many devices connected to the web with a unique IP address for each one. Click here for full story
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