Transition to IPv6

Survey says that IPv4 runs out of free addresses and already many devices share them. The amount of internet users have been rising constantly till 2008. But now the number of users are multiplied due to development of technology and reduction in the cost of its availability. The technology that were once thought to be the rich people's aid is now in the hands of the daily waged people. Improved technology is available in much affordable costs. This is the same in the case of internet users and the need to allot the addresses to those.

Some may wonder what's addressing is. Just as the phones use unique numbers to place calls, Every devises connected to the internet gets unique address. Addressing is not only for the computers but they are to be allotted for the mobiles, TVs, even watches which are connected to the internet. They all use IPv4 address.

IPv4 is a 12 digit combination as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx - E.g. 192.1.2.120. Hence it can accommodate only 4 billion devices which was once considered enough. But now, not nearly enough for the world's population. The traffic has already reached its limit. Now, the only way is to increase the number of digits. This is the concept of IPv6. Its time to wonder that IPv6 addressing uses 340 trillion trillion trillion! yes, its 340,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 addresses that IPv6 can handle. This is more than enough for the earth population to give everyone with an IP addresses. Now internet can be offered to every citizen of the nation.

The transition has already started and was launched today (June 6,2012). Here is the Launch Batch..

Yet it will take some time to replace each and every IPv4 device to IPv6.