IPv6
Our Definition
IPv6 stands for Internet Protocol version 6 and is the next generation of internet protocol enabling faster packages of data to be passed across the internet.
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IPv6 is designed as an evolutionary upgrade to the Internet Protocol and will, in fact, coexist with the older IPv4 for some time. IPv6 is designed to allow the Internet to grow steadily, both in terms of the number of hosts connected and the total amount of data traffic transmitted.
IPv6 is intended to let the Internet and World Wide Web grow far beyond the increasingly restrictive IP address limitations of current 32-bit IPv4 addressing. Whereas IPv4, the current standard, allows about 4 billion individual IP addresses (one for each Web site or Internet-aware device), 128-bit IPv6 addressing expands this to a theoretical maximum of 340 undecillion (340 followed by 36 digits). Sometimes called IPng, or Next Generation Internet Protocol.
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