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Could the Web Run Out of Addresses By 2010?
4 Nov
If businesses, governments, and education institutions don’t upgrade to a newer IP address standard relatively soon, we could experience an unnerving scenario: the world running out of Internet addresses.
The report, released by the European Commission, states that only 17% of 610 institutions surveyed have upgraded from the IPv4 protocol to IPv6. Without this upgrade, the Internet can only support between 4 and 4.5 billion IP addresses, the unique string of numbers associated with every website in existence. According to The Telegraph, the web will be close to the critical point by the end of 2010.
Read more at http://mashable.com/2009/11/02/no-more-ip-addresses/
Posted on Nov 04, 2009 - 02:13 PM
