IPV4 Down by 7 Million addresses IPv6 powers Internet growth

摘要

The number of unique IPv4 addresses declined across the globe by about 7 mn in this year's second quarter as compared to the same quarter last year. The crunching IPv4 address space is giving way to the availability of IPv6 connectivity among leading network service providers. IPv6 deployment is critical for the Internet to grow in a sustainable manner. Read more about how IPv6 is taking over IPv4 A recent research by Akamai has revealed some very interesting insights on the level of Internet penetration around the world. In the second quarter of 2014, over 788 mn IPv4 addresses from 238 unique countries/regions connected to its cloud computing platform. This is 0.9% lower than in the first quarter of 2014, and 4.8% more than in the second quarter of 2013. Although there were nearly 800 mn unique IPv4 addresses, this might represent well over one billion Web users. In some cases, multiple individuals may be represented by a single IPv4 address (or a small number of IPv4 addresses) because they access the Web through a firewall or proxy server. In other cases, individual users may have multiple IPv4 addresses associated with them due to their use of multiple connected devices. Unless otherwise specified, the use of 'IP address' within Section 2.1 refers to IPv4 addresses.