Internet Protocol version six, or IPv6, is an Internet addressing system designed to expand the number of available IP addresses.
This expansion is necessary because the current number of addresses under Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) is gradually being exhausted.
Cisco Systems is helping enterprises prepare for the migration to IPv6 (Internet protocol version 6) from IPv4, which most of the world runs on today.
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The Cisco study also projects that 71 percent of all smartphones and tablets (1.6 billion) could be capable of connecting to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) mobile network by 2016.
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Lou Anne Brossman, marketing director for Juniper's U.S. public sector business, claims her company has taken a lead in getting the government up to speed on hot-button topics like Internet Protocol Version Six, or upgrading networks to the next generation of specifications governing how to send data over the Internet.
So, in the early 1990s, work began on a new version of the protocol that, for a start, would allow for more addresses.
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The problem is that the original version of Internet Protocol (IPv4), on which the bulk of the Internet has been built thus far, has a fixed capacity of 4.3 billion IP addresses.
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In the early days of his research, Cerf said, he worked on a more secure version of his networking protocol for the National Security Agency, but wasn't able to implement that technology in what would become the public Internet.
The internet was built on version 4 of the Internet Protocol (IPv4) which has an upper limit of about four billion addresses.
IP, which has ended up being called version six (version five was an experimental protocol) was therefore devised by the Internet's top wizards.
The Cloud Security Alliance is drawing up a new version of its Cloud Trust Protocol (CTP) that will create a clear set of transparent measures that can be applied to all CSPs.
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The new version of WAP, or wireless application protocol - a standard that allows mobile devices to display Web-like information - is due out by January, and is expected to create a PC-type environment that could open the door to attacks.
An earlier version of this story mistakenly reported that the Obama Administration is sending Additional Protocol 1 for Senate ratification.
He wrote that Thermos was merely exploiting a bug in an early version of a piece of software known as Zfone, which used the protocol.
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