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Originally Posted by Tenshi now with massive new-mobile phones IPS are now being taken over in other areas too (servers, PC's, Phones, etc...) but ipv6 wont be around for a long time just yet... info on what is ipv4 and ...6 IPv6: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6 IPv4 address exhaustion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion What is IPv6? Internet Protocol version six, or IPv6, is an Internet layer protocol developed in the 1990s (and described in RFC2460) as an alternative to IPv4. Rather than using a 32-bit system, IPv6 is based on 128-bit addresses, meaning that there are 2128 individual addresses available, which is approximately 3.4Ч1038, and exactly: 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,45 6 IPv6 provides enough addresses to allow the Internet to continue to expand and the industry to innovate. It is not, however, directly compatible with IPv4, meaning that a device connected via IPv4 cannot communicate directly with a device connected using IPv6. Deploying IPv6 on a global scale is vital to the Internet industry, but it requires pro-active steps on the part of industry players: technology must be upgraded, staff trained, business plans developed. To ignore IPv6 is a risk for long term business viability.

Yes, congratulations on copying content from Wikipedia and re-summarizing what the OP has already stated.