Cloud Computing: IPv4 addresses running out — really
May 30, 2015
Grazed from GCN. Author: Kathleen Hickey.
Decade-old predictions about the eventual depletion of IPv4 addresses may soon be coming true. The United States will run out of Internet addresses based on Internet Protocol version 4 by the summer, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
“The shortage puts companies that maintain their own large and growing Internet presence at the biggest risk, especially providers of cloud-computing services. Such companies could find themselves saddled with unexpected costs, technical problems or simply an inability to serve new customers. Those that aren’t building out their own data centers won’t face the shortage directly, but their online providers likely will,” the WSJ wrote…
This exhaustion of IPv4 addresses is arriving at a faster rate than predicted. In 2013, Owen DeLong, director of professional services at Hurricane Electric, a global Internet services provider, predicted IPv4 becoming unsustainable in 2017 or 2018. At the time IPv6 packets accounted for less than 2 percent of all Internet traffic…
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