What is internet protocol and why will IP version 6 become more important?
Internet protocol is the set of techniques used by many hosts for transmitting data over the Internet. It is the backbone of our daily lives in building automation. The IPv4 that is in place has limitations and we are running out of IP addresses. IPv4 is 32bit and we have a little over 4 billion internet addresses. IPv6 is 128bit, which gives us 2128 possible I.P. addresses. (340,282,366,920,938,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000). The very large IPv6 address space supports a total of 2128 (about 3.41038) addressesor approximately 51028 (roughly 295) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5109) people alive in 2006. In a different perspective, this is 252 addresses for every observable star in the known universe.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipv6 IPv6 means that every device that we have in our buildings can have an IP address. Every single point and component in the entire universe can have a unique IP address. Our networks will be able to assign more IP segments and devices
