Comments on: The Tera Era or Peta is Better? http://www.porres.com/conversation/2008/09/26/the-tera-era/ Musings, rants, ideations, philosophies, & treatises of Eric Porres. Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Glenn Rempe http://www.porres.com/conversation/2008/09/26/the-tera-era/comment-page-1/#comment-10966 Glenn Rempe Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:24:39 +0000 http://www.porres.com/conversation/?p=286#comment-10966 Here's another from the world of mind-boggling numbers... The current internet addressing scheme 'IPv4' is being slowly replaced by 'IPv6' since the number of IPv4 addresses will shortly run out. The designers went big with the IPv6 address space to make sure we <b>never</b> run out. "The very large IPv6 address space supports 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses, or approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10^9) people alive today. In a different perspective, this is 2^52 addresses for every observable star in the known universe – more than ten billion billion billion times as many addresses as IPv4 (2^32) supported." IPv4 Address: 192.168.0.1 IPv6 Address: 2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6" rel="nofollow">IPv6 on Wikipedia</a> Cheers. Here’s another from the world of mind-boggling numbers…

The current internet addressing scheme ‘IPv4′ is being slowly replaced by ‘IPv6′ since the number of IPv4 addresses will shortly run out. The designers went big with the IPv6 address space to make sure we never run out.

“The very large IPv6 address space supports 2^128 (about 3.4×10^38) addresses, or approximately 5×10^28 (roughly 2^95) addresses for each of the roughly 6.5 billion (6.5×10^9) people alive today. In a different perspective, this is 2^52 addresses for every observable star in the known universe – more than ten billion billion billion times as many addresses as IPv4 (2^32) supported.”

IPv4 Address:
192.168.0.1

IPv6 Address:
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:0000:1428:57ab

IPv6 on Wikipedia

Cheers.

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