Internet Protocol And Its Effect On The Internet

The popularity of Internet has become ubiquitous and pervasive all over the world. The Internet plays a pivotal role in all walks of human life and has improved the quality of people life and has invaded all sectors like Governmental Organizations, Science and Technology, Business World, Industry and Education. In 1969, the Internet was originated by US Department of Defense (DoD) and Advanced Research Project (ARPANET) using Network Control Program (NCP). Research on packet switching communication methodology resulted in inter-networking of networks in 1981, when the researchers in Great Britain and Norway tried to collaborate with the researchers in US using Internet Protocol (IP). Realizing the importance and advantages of IP, the Internet

With the rapid growth of the Internet after commercialization in the 1990s, it became evident that far more addresses than the IPv4 address space has available were necessary to connect new devices in the future. By 1998, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) had formalized the successor protocol. IPv6 uses a 128-bit address, allowing 2128, or approximately 3.4×1038 addresses, or more than 7.9×1028 times as many as IPv4, which uses 32-bit addresses and provides approximately 4.3 billion addresses. The two protocols are not designed to beinteroperable, complicating the transition to IPv6. However, several IPv6 transition mechanisms have been devised to permit communication between IPv4 and IPv6

With admirable foresight, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) initiated as early as in 1994, the design and development of a suite of protocols and standards now known as Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6), as a worthy tool to phase out and supplant IPv4 over the coming years. There is an explosion of sorts in the number and range of IP capable devices that are being released in the market and the usage of these by an increasingly tech savvy global population. The new protocol aims to effectively support the ever-expanding Internet usage and functionality, and also address security concerns.

Our proposed voice over internet protocol (VOIP) phone system is powered by Cisco. It is consist of several hardware and software devices. The most basic piece of hardware to be used is the Cisco PBX. This device cost $6000. It supports a surplus of over 1000 extensions. The company has got an approximate 120 users of the old IP telephony system. In this regard three Cisco catalyst switch (POE) 48 ports will be needed. Such a switch cost $893.93 each. Three EnGenius EGS7252FP switches will be interconnected with trunk ports along each other supporting 144 VOIPS extensions in the network. (amazon, 2015)

The world of technology is dynamic. Technology has been revolutionized to its current status of industry four. This has seen various changes in the information technology, in the previous time the Internet Protocol 4 (IPV 4) was used to identify the IP address. Times have changes leading to the development of IPV 6 which can handle multiple addresses at a time. The IPV 6 handles 3.4 x 1038 addresses at a single time. This recommendable since the world has evolved to use of digital systems that require IP addresses every time. This paper explains the effects of technology developments, benefits and the flaws involved. The development of technology has been used in various industrial fields that include, industrial production, aquatic study, and research, smart lighting among others.

The need for IPv6 is growing by the day. There are good amount of reasons why the migration of IPv6 is not only desirable, but necessary in days to come. Some of the areas were IPv6 benefit from are reduced address space, advanced security features, enhanced quality of service, and stateless auto configuration. (IPv6 and the Future of the Internet).

Since its advent the Internet has been making its way into very farfetched corners of the world, allowing people to virtually reduce distances. Now the Internet was based on a notion called IP (Internet Protocol), Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) to be exact. Now as the number of computer connected to the Internet grows, the amount of numbers in the IPv4 protocol was finite. Simply put, there are 2^32 useful addresses in IPv4 (subtracting the loopback and the non-routable). With all the connected computers (and growing) this number looks very small. That being said the number of non-allocated IPs is decreasing at a very fast pace. To cater to this problem IPv6 is brought forward. Although there are a lot of problems with the implementation, it certainly brings forward a huge pool of addresses supplemented by some really good security benefits. Some of them include decreased vulnerability to the man in the middle attacks and larger atmosphere surface area, making worm proliferation less effectual. While some may consider these benefits to be negligible, they should be embraced within a set economic cost.

The TCP/IP protocols are the heart and soul of the Internet, and they describe the fundamental rules that govern all communications in the network. The original address system of the Internet is Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) developed IPv6 to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion. However, IPv6 is not foreseen to supplant IPv4 instantaneously.

A Global transition to Internet Protocol version 6 is initiated. The government and organizations understand the benefits of this new protocol and are making change plans. The Information technology industry is undergoing a massive transformation. This research paper would outline the migration, transformation, and configuration of Internet Protocol version 6 from Internet Protocol version 4. Currently; we are close to exhausting a lot of our options regarding current Internet Protocol version 4 addresses. The new Internet

By this report I would like to explain the reasons for why IPV6 may be adopted later rather than sooner. This report provides an information about what is IP, brief background on next version of IP, IPv6. A review of the differences between IPv4 and IPV6, transition to ipv6, the features and benefits of IPv6,barriers of IPV6,what are the risks will occur while moving to IPV6 from IPV4.

IPv6 uses 128-bit hexadecimal addresses and has built-in security and QoS features. An IPv6 address is 128 bits rather than the 32 bits in an IPv4 address. This length increases the number of possible addresses from about 4 billion in IPv4 to 3.4 x 1038 addresses (that’s 34 followed by 37 zeros!) in IPv6. Unless IP addresses are assigned to every star in the universe, it’s safe to say enough IPv6 addresses will be available.

In today’s day in age society is culturally more open to other people’s values and perspectives. This is partially due to the information available on the internet. The internet has opened a tremendous amount of various information from different points of view. These different points of view help others with no knowledge accept and perceive the information as if they were a person who may be dealing with racism, assault, and or discrimination. Gladwell might have mentioned people misunderstand something written by a stranger on the internet, but proved that point wrong by showing the positive aspects of technology being more helpful for protesting. The three main

More sooner than later the internet will transition to IPv6 rather than the current IPv4 standard; this is partially due to very few IPv4 network address available (Haugh, 2012). Many large companies are already using the IPv6 internet protocol and using it now will prevent having to reengineer the network at a later timeframe (Wong, 2011). Even though the local ISP may require IPv4, in the short term, that can be overcome by using IPv4 and IPv6 dual stack tunneling (Beverly, 2015). This allows external IPv4 address conversion to IPv6 with the configuration of the internet facing network address translating (NAT) router.

IPv4 and IPv6 are communication protocols (rules) which allow remote computers, servers, and other IT related devices to communicate. Both owe their existence to the massive growth of the internet. There was no need for IP-versions in 1969 when the internet began as ARPANET, a network set up by the United States Defense Advance Research Project. With only a few dozen computers on the net, each identified by a host name, they were able identify, contact and communicate with each other using host name only. When ARPANET went public and became what we know as the internet today, using host names only to identify devices became untenable.

With technology continually progressing and the volume of people that use the Internet increases, the amount of IP addresses are shrinking. IPv4 addresses were though of prior to the Ipv6 technology and are more common among households an and business. However, the IPv4 addresses are slowly depleting from the world. What already occurred in Europe, and what is currently happening in North America is the extinction of IPv4 addresses. To solve this problem users are starting to move into using IPv6 addresses.