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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Internet grows by trillions of addresses, as IPV6 rolls out worldwide

Internet grows by trillions of addresses, as IPV6 rolls out worldwide | Fox News: "With IPv6, everything can have a unique number, making it easier and quicker for data to find its way around the Internet. In comparison to IPv4's 4.3 billion IP addresses, IPv6 can assign about 340 trillion trillion trillion (that's not a typo). Or to be exact:

340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 IP addresses.

The addresses won't run out, and that means all kinds of gadgets most people hadn't even thought of can get online. Appliances, even individual lights, can more easily join the "smart grid" to turn on or off...."

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