What Is IPv6?

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Hi, welcome to the term of the day: IPv6

IPv6 is the current standard for assigning public IP addresses to internet-connected devices. A successor to the IPv4 standard, IPv6 was developed to address the problem of IPv4 exhaustion—the depletion of available IPv4 addresses due to the unanticipated exponential growth in internet connectivity.

Offering a pool of unique IP addresses many orders of magnitude larger than IPv4, IPv6 will allow internet connectivity for a virtually unlimited number of devices.

In this sense, the question “what is IPv6? can be answered simply: a perfect solution to the IP address exhaustion problem for the long term.

Learn more about IPv4 preservation and IPv4 to IPv6 migration