Archive: IPv6

• Posted in on 07.14.2017

  IP Addresses: Your Questions Answered

  If you have ever worked with an internet service provider, you have probably heard the term “IP Address” before. Even so, it is very easy not to give the term much thought. But, what if I told you without IP addresses, we would live in a world without internet, phone, or any communication between devices?

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• Posted in on 06.16.2016

  IPv4 Exhaustion is REAL

  Written by: Steve Puluka, Sr IP Engineer, DQE Communications // June 2016

  When TCP/IP version 4 was published in 1981 (RFC 791-3) the four byte 4.2 billion addresses seemed like a limitless resource in our nascent networked world. The standard had only three sizes of addresses allocated to members: class A (16 million), B (65k) and …

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