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Wednesday Nov 24, 16:46
Mr. Anderson affirms that none the leading vendors of access currently offers IPv6 to the private individuals, but he believes that they are in the process of do it. Beautiful refused to speak about the projects of the company on this subject, while Shaw did not turn over a call seeking to obtain its comments.
In what milked with the consumers, they will have to make sure that their computers, routers and other apparatuses will have the software requirements for IPv6. Certain old men apparatuses could have to be replaced if they cannot be updated.
Mr. Anderson believes however that this process will be done gradually top, over one long period, so that the users will not be taken a course.
The already connected users with Internet will not note really change the day when last address IP will be assigned best, Mr. Anderson believes. The real challenge will concern the new Net surfers.
Each apparatus related to Internet has an address IP, that is to say a series of figures identifying each apparatus. A shortage of addresses takes shape however throughout the world.
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He explains why IPv6 exists since more than one decade, but that there was no reason to turn up to now to this protocol.
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That means that the suppliers of access to Internet, the Web sites and the consumers will have to pass soon to a new protocol, IPv6, which will make it possible to assign 340 undecillions addresses (340 followup of 36 zeros).
The current system to assign IP addresses, known under the name of IPv4, uses a format allowing 4,3 billion combinations. But the experts provide that they all will have been assigned from here the next year.
Paul Anderson, member of the council of the organization assigning IP addresses in North America, affirms that when the current protocol was conceived with the beginning of the year 1980, its creators were unaware of the width which possibly Internet would take. Nobody had thought either that a user could one day need several addresses, for the computer, Blackberry, the iPad and other apparatuses.
The suppliers of access to Internet will have to soon set up IPv6 networks to be able to serve the new consumers.
The content providers will have as for them to make sure that their Web sites are ready for IPv6, because a computer connected with the new network will not be able to see a Web site on the old one, and vice versa.
VANCOUVER billion computers, telephones and other gadgets throughout the world are connected to Internet, but it will miss soon space so that new apparatuses unite with them.
A spokesperson of Telus, Shawn Hall, did not want to comment on the preparations of the company, but indicated by email that Telus “develops IPv6 services at the head by having the companies and the consumers and will be ready for the possible adoption (protocol)”.
This modification will force certain users to have to make software updates and to buy new material, and problems could be born when the suppliers of access skeleton, the users and the content providers bring changes to different times.