Networking

Discussion 5

All networking specialists need to be familiar with IPV6 because it is the future of networking. So why are new homes and offices still being fitted with IPV4?

IPV4 has 43 x 109 (4.3 billion) addresses, hard to imagine anybody thinking that it would reach that capacity within a lifetime. IPV6 has 3.4 x 1038 (340 undecillion) addresses. Do you think that we will run out of IPV6 addresses anytime soon? How long will it be before we have to create IPV7 and IPV8?

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IPv4 address has 4.3 billion addresses that make it viable to stay for long. Despite having these huge numbers, the IPv4 has been spread across the globe with each household getting a set of 2^24 addresses. New offices and homes getting the IPv4 addresses can extend the systems to various numbers making it hard for the end of the IP address……………..
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