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T
he Software Development Club
hosted a conference at the Newport
News campus, featuring guest speakers
and student presentations. Students,
faculty, staff, and local employers learned
about new applications and trends as
well as the latest revision of Internet
Protocol (IP), the communications
protocol that provides an identification
and location system for computers on
networks and routes traffic across the
Internet.
IPv6 was developed by the Internet
Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal
with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4
address exhaustion. ECPI University
faculty member Mr. Al Portes uses an
M&M’S analogy to describe the capacity
of the new Internet Protocol version 6
(IPv6).
“Under the old IPv4, we were limited
to about 4.2 billion addresses,” says
Portes. “To put that in context, you could
spread out a single layer of M&M’S and
about 4.2 billion of them would cover a
football field. With IPv6, the capacity is
so great that the sheer number would be
unrecognizable to the average person.
Suffice it to say, you could fill all the
Great Lakes with M&M’S, each one
representing a different address!”
Software Development Club Advisor Dr. Andrew Jung with student presenters Richard Bailey, Kenneth
Crim, Jeffrey Wheeless, and Darius Phillips.
Newport News Club Explains the Latest in
IP Protocol at Conference
T
he Columbia campus has joined The
Graduation Imperative. Anchored
around institutions of higher education,
it’s a community-led initiative aimed
at increasing the number of college
graduates. By improving college
retention, members will encourage
economic growth and development in
the region.
According to the Greater Columbia
Chamber of Commerce, educational
attainment is one of the biggest
predictors of success for cities and
metro areas today. Simply put, the
more educated a city’s population, the
more robust its economy. What’s more,
increasing the
four-year college
degree attainment
rate in each of
the country’s
51 largest
metropolitan
areas by 1 per
cent would
generate an
increase in
personal income
of $124 billion per year for the nation.
“ECPI University provides a student-
centered learning environment which
promotes professional development and
retention,” said ECPI Columbia Campus
President James Rund. “Because we
work closely with our students, assessing
their individual needs, we see ourselves
as a natural partner for this important
initiative.”
The Graduation Imperative Welcomes
ECPI University