Software Development Club Explains the Latest in IP Protocol
Key Takeaways
The Software Development Club hosted a technical conference featuring student presentations and industry speakers discussing emerging technologies, specifically IPv6 and its massive expansion of internet address capacity. IPv6 addresses the address exhaustion problem of IPv4 by providing extraordinarily greater capacity—enough addresses to fill the Great Lakes if each represented an M&M.
- IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force to address IPv4 address exhaustion
- IPv4 limited internet addresses to approximately 4.2 billion addresses
- IPv6 provides vastly greater capacity—comparable to filling all the Great Lakes with M&Ms, each representing a unique address
- ECPI faculty used creative analogies to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences
- Software Development Club conference engaged students, faculty, staff, and local employers
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 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 4.2 billion 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!”
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