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Internet Running Out of IP Addresses

Service providers need to get onboard with IPv6

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 31, 2007 11:26 AM CDT

(Newser) – By 2010, new computers won’t be able to get online, warns Internet co-inventor Vint Cerf, unless ISPs adopt IPv6, a new system of assigning IP addresses. IP addresses are unique number strings devices need to get online, but most of the 4 billion numbers... Read full story »

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