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Advantages And Limitations Of Ipv4

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Communication is the foremost requirement in order to express one’s relations to the mankind and for expression of one’s attitude .Whenever two persons meet they require some medium to interchange their ideas/opinions but most of the times due to large distance between communicating parties some tools are required to communicate with each other. At the end of 19th century, renowned scientist Alexander Graham Bell laid the foundation in the field of development of communication using different ideas regardless of the large distances. The first wire based telephony equipment was invented by him. It was the solution for voice communication despite the huge distances between communicating parties. Thereafter radio based communication system Era started. It was mere an extension of wire based networks. In the early times it was just developed for few special purposes like military and defense usage .As the time passed these systems emerged to allow common public to communicate with each other, rather than using wire based network. Thereafter the era of faster and reliable communication and higher capabilities of voice communication began to develop and evolved into new telecommunication system. In the new generation networks the desire to have seamless …show more content…

It has been framed keeping the limitations of IPv4 in mind. One of the important features of IPv6 is the 128 bit address space, which will probably not be exhausted in the foreseeable future. IPv4 was having the drawback of no provision for mobility and security. Both these features needed to be added in somewhat patch-work way as the need for mobility and security evolved. Thus, IPv6 has been designed keeping both the provision for security and mobility right from the

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