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India has started to roll out plans for switching the nation from IPv4 to IPv6. The country is demanding that all entities—from federal and state government ministries to public sector companies—be migrated to the new Internet protocol version by March of 2012.

Why IPv6? Simply put, the world is running out of available IP addresses under the IPv4 protocol. According to reports released just last week, it’s estimated that there’s less than one year before the full IPv4 address table—32-bit numbers used to identify network-connected devices—is completely exhausted. That’s 4.3 billion IP addresses, a proverbial drop in the bucket compared to the number of possible addresses provided by IPv6: two to the power of 128.
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