Warning ! By 2010 the Internet will run out of IP addresses

Vint Cerf or “the father of the Internet” one of the world’s leading computer scientists, stated that the web will run out of unique codes that allow computers to communicate with each other.
The outcome might be disastrous as the internet protocol (IP) addresses will run out, the connectivity of the internet will be heavily damaged and some computers will not be able to go online.
This is like the internet running out of telephone numbers and with no new numbers, you can’t have more subscribers,” V.Cerf said.
In 1977 when the Internet went online for the first time, there were 4.2 billion addresses available under the internet protocol version four (IPv4) system. Each of the IPv4 addresses holds a series of 32 binary numbers, but with the rapid expansion of broadband across the world, it is estimated that these addresses will run out by 2010.
Japan already has a new system called IPv6,used to connect thousands of earthquake sensors through a computer system that sends automatic alerts to television programmes and turns traffic lights red.
IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long and so the posibilty gets a bit bigger,lets say, 340 trillion, trillion, trillion address space.

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