Blog Posts Tagged with "The Internet Society"

91648658a3e987ddb81913b06dbdc57a

What is an "Undecillion"?

February 03, 2011 Added by:Ron Baklarz

The protocol allows for 340 undecillion addresses, which is 340 trillion groups of one trillion networks each that can handle a trillion devices. If the IPv4 pool of 4.3 billion addresses were the size of a golf ball, the new 340 undecillion IPv6 addresses would be about the size of the sun...

Comments  (2)

69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

The Internet is Running Out of IP Addresses Fast

January 24, 2011 Added by:Headlines

Internet service provider Hurricane Electric estimates that at the present rate of IP address assignments, the availability of IP addresses under the current IPv4 protocol will be exhausted in the first week of February...

Comments  (0)

69dafe8b58066478aea48f3d0f384820

IPv6 Upgrade Could Lock Out Millions of Internet Users

January 20, 2011 Added by:Headlines

"IPv6 experts say some Internet users will experience slowdowns or have trouble connecting to IPv6-enabled websites because they have misconfigured or misbehaving network equipment, primarily in their home networks. Corporate users also could experience IPv6 brokenness..."

Comments  (0)