| How to ensure network well-being while making the transition to IPv6 | |||
| Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, May 03, 2012 - 11:13 PM | |||
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The explosive growth of the Internet means that we need more addresses than IPv4 can provide. Luckily, IPv6 has a much larger address space. To be exact, it supports a total of 2128 (about 3.4×1038) addresses. On top of that, IPv6 offers the ability to have longer IP addresses, which will prove beneficial for various web applications and provides an almost endless availability of addresses, which offers the possibility to assign a unique IP address not only to every device in a network but to each single service. | ||
| Complete info at CSO and IDG. | |||