In the early 1990s, internet engineers sounded the alarm: the pool of numeric addresses that identify every device online was not infinite. IPv4, the fourth version of the Internet Protocol, used ...

If you are using Internet or almost any computer network you will likely using IPv4 packets. IPv4 uses 32-bit source and destination address fields. We are actually running out of addresses but have ...

A total of 33.6 million addresses are on their way to their ultimate users on the Net--meaning the last blocks of IPv4 addresses will be allocated soon. IPv6, hurry up, would ya? Stephen Shankland ...

Without a steady supply of fresh addresses, many Internet-related activities are going to become problematic in the years to come. Things like connecting new users and new servers. All those iPhone 5 ...

An Internet Protocol address, also known as an IP address, is a unique number that identifies a device connected to the ...

An internet protocol (IP) address is a unique identifying number assigned to a device that connects to the internet. It functions as an online device address―characterized by a string of numbers―used ...

Verizon Business says it has enough IP addresses using the current version of the Internet Protocol, known as IPv4, to support its U.S. business and government customers as they transition to the next ...

Some of the last remaining blocks of IPv4 addresses turn out to attract packets that are the result of misconfiguration to a much higher degree than regular address space. There's a lot of congestion ...