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The need to implement the protocol IPv6 by service-providers

MThe article describes history of IP protocol evolution and prospects of spreading the new version IPv6. The purpose of the article is to give the reader some information of the 3rd layer of model OSI in the historical context. The aim of the article is to provide the reader with some material in current trends of change the 3-rd layer in scale of Internet. A lot of attention is given to some aspects of the IPv4 exhaustion address space. Also described technologies to overcome the shortage of the amount of IPv4 address space. According to the article free address space IPv4 was ended in IANA in 2011. The following conclusions show that new version of IP protocol – IPv6 is propagation as geometric progression. It is proved that the new Protocol IPv6 should become a new fundamental Protocol of the modern Internet.

Denis Mikhlevich
IP/MPLS Network Administration department head CJSC "Volgatranstelecom"









Keywords:
IPv4, IPv6, Internet, 3-rd layer of model OSI
Published: Communication Technologies & Equipment Magazine #5, 2015

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