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Why The Internet Hungers for IPv6

Explosive growth of Internet users, devices, apps creates demand for more IP addresses.

In a word: Growth. IPv4 uses 32-bit addresses and can support 4.3 billion devices connected directly to the Internet. IPv6 uses 128-bit addresses and provides such a vast number of addresses that it can only be expressed mathematically: 3.4 x 10 to the 38th power.

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