IPV6 Launched

Hello friends on june 6,2012 microsoft launched IPv6.Now microsoft supports industry-standard technologies including the new standard protocol for the Internet, Internet Protocol version 6 (also known as IPv6), which is the next step beyond IPv4, the current standard protocol for the Internet. These protocols provide IP addresses, the "phone numbers" for the Internet that are responsible for identifying computers and devices so that they can communicate.
IPv6 is designed to solve many of the problems of IPv4, including mobility, auto-configuration, and overall extensibility. IPv6 expands the address space on the Internet and supports a nearly unlimited number of devices that can be directly connected to the Internet.




Differences between address space of IPv4 & IPv6:-

An IPv4 address is represented by 4 groups of 8-bit decimal values separated by dot(.),For example:-

An IPv6 address is represented by 8 groups of 16-bit hexadecimal values separated by colon(:)and it is abbrviated with the  following rules:

• Omit leading zeroes in a 16-bit value.
• Replace one or more groups of consecutive zeroes by a double colon.

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