Week 12 Clear: Telecommunications and the Internet

IPv4 and IPv6
One concept I thought was very interesting in the lesson section was about the Internet Protocol Version 4. It is one of the most widely used versions on the internet today. As we have grown as a society, the number of connections to the internet have grown too (exponentially). This has led to a massive amount of different IP addresses for each device. The rise of mobile devices and other devices connected to the internet has led to an exhaustion of internet addresses. This was an unforeseen consequence because the people who created the original IPv4 were unaware of the amount of connections that would be needed in the future.

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A resolution to this problem has come in the form of what is known as Internet Protocol Version 6. This has taken the previous limit of a little over 4 trillion unique addresses and has increased it to 340 undecillion internet connections (3.4×10^38). This limit should take us far into the future before having to come up with a different structure to the internet protocol.

Internet of Things
On the same note, when it was discussed that many items are being connected to the internet that were not previously, I got a little curious on the developments of modern technology in that field. Some of the newly connected items to the internet include a home's oven, thermostat, garage door, alarm system, electricity in the household, cars, everything electronic you can think of is being included in the internet connection. I reviewed a video that came from another section in this class called "The Internet of Things".


Below is a detailed explanation of IPv6