If you’re a communications industry veteran, you are probably aware of the issue of IPv4 network address exhaust. Indeed, we’ve all been hearing about this eventuality for years. But this issue, which faded for a while, recently has made a big comeback. The reason why is now crystal clear: The last remaining IPv4/8 address blocks were allocated last week. And yesterday the Internet Society, ICANN and IANA made an announcement about the end of IPv4 address allocations.
Tim Titus, chief technology officer for PathSolutions and a panelist on one of this morning’s Cloud Communications Summit session noted this and commented on what it will mean.
“It’s going to be like a giant land rush,” Titus said.
He added that ISPs may offer to buy their customers blocks of IP addresses if they’re not using them.
Dan York of Voxeo added that the company has been asking its equipment providers if their solutions are IPv6 ready, but he said many handsets are hardwired for IPv4.
For more on IPv6, see my expanded story on the subject, which should post shortly under my bio at this link.
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