Twenty years ago, the fastest Internet backbone links were 1.5Mbps. Today we argue whether that’s a fast enough minimum to connect home users. In 1993, 1.3 million machines were connected to the ...

On Feb. 3, 2011, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that the last remaining Internet protocol version 4 (IPv4) IP addresses had been allocated, although it may ...

typical Internet-level network In this case, the nodes could be regular computers and servers and other stuff (see the IPv4 and IPv6 discussions above for examples of systems you might find in your ...

Plagued with uncertainties and ambiguities of the development in the public adaptation of IPv6, IPv4 becomes a commodity that gives rise to leasing IPv4. Leasing IPv4 is a crucial component, ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

Michael Fry receives funding from ARC. If you’re the sort of person who relies on the internet every day, you’ll maybe have twitched slightly on hearing rumours that the world is running out of ...

In recent years, universities have faced a perfect storm of factors that have contributed to an educational financial crisis. The cost of delivering high-quality higher education has skyrocketed, ...

In April, ARIN, the (North) American Registry for Internet Numbers, announced that it had reached “phase 4” of its IPv4 countdown plan, with fewer than 17 million IPv4 addresses remaining. There is no ...

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