Techies Ramp Up For Internet’s Next Incarnation
March 7, 2006 by Mary Wynne-Wynter
This is promising..and a lot more exciting than a 'smart refrigerator'.
Techies Ramp Up For Internet's Next Incarnation: " By Ellen McCarthy
Thursday, May 26, 2005; Page E01
Those in the know call it " IPV6 ," short for Internet Protocol Version 6. (For the curious, we're currently using Version 4 -- Version 5 never really got off the ground.)
The essential advantage of Version 6 is that it can expand to give Internet addresses not only to every cell phone, iPod and BlackBerry that will eventually come online, but also to Web-enabled sensors that will someday be scattered around our homes, cars and communities, allowing users to control more of their world through the Internet.
The current version has about 4.3 billion available addresses; the new one has so many it is expressed in exponents (3.4 x 10 to the power of 38).
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