IP Addresses Predicted To Be Exhausted In 2011
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With less than a year's worth of Internet addresses left, the call for the technology industry to move faster to adopt the next-generation Internet protocol is growing louder.
Where the current protocol IPv4 has less than 231.5 million addresses left, the new IPv6 protocol would open up a virtually unlimited number of the unique identifiers for computers, mobile phones and other web-connected devices. Unlike domain names typed in a browser, an IP address is a sequence of numbers assigned to each device for the machine-to-machine communication necessary to operate on the Internet.