Innofone conducts successful IPv6 summit
Innofone is the only company dedicated exclusively to demonstrating how to exploit the benefits of the futuristic IPv6, and more and more companies are interested in what it has to offer
Santa Monica, California-based Innofone.com (OTC: INFN), to the extent that we can tell, is the first public company to focus exclusively on IPv6. Late last week it conducted its US IPv6 Summit 2005 in Reston, Virginia. The summit drew many participants and sponsors. No wonder here: The U.S. government has mandated a move to IPv6 by 2008. A study conducted by the Japanese government concluded that global products and services enabled by the new Internet are expected to total about $1.55 trillion dollars in 2010.
IPv6 is intended to address concerns about the current IPv4 address exhaustion. There are too few IP addresses available for the future demand of device connectivity (especially cell phones and mobile devices). IPv4 supports 4.2 billion* addresses, which is inadequate for giving even one address to each person on earth (nearly six billion), let alone support the burgeoning market for connective devices. IPv6 addresses this problem by supporting 340 undecillion ** addresses.
Currently, IPv6 is most useful for mobility, quality of service, privacy extension, and so forth. It is expected that IPv4 will be supported until at least 2025, to allow time for bugs and system errors in IPv6 to be corrected.
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