What About IPv6

IPv6, Internet Protocol, version 6. So, what? Network Innovations are coming very slowly.  The last game-changing innovations include network security, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT).
There is one Game Changer that seems to get no respect; no Press Coverage. I am talking about moving from today's IP structure to tomorrow's IP structure. Moving from IPv4 and its limited address space to IPv6 with its huge address space.

Yes, cloud computing, network security, IoT all started with IPv4 as a backbone. And that is all that will happen if we don't embrace IPv6. IPv4 invented 25 or more years ago, was designed for the world where mobile phones were just that, phones - a world without video streaming, or online shopping, and no online banking. Email meant AOL.

What is required is a new Internet Protocol, a new IP, that will support all these new technologies in our house, our car, in education, in manufacturing, in the transport field, in the medical field, and some benefits we haven't even thought of yet.  This network supports 50 billion devices in phase 1.
 
IPv6, designed for an environment that includes the cloud, social, mobile, IoT, pervasive security, and millions of small sensors and network agents all over.
 
Unlike IPv4, the old IP, where the hardware Vendor (think CISCO) is at the center of it all, the new IP, IPv6, has the customer at its center. IT security is a part of the protocol, and not an add-on like in IPv4. Provisioning is automatic. IPv6 can, and is, deployed across software silos, be there sensors, or data. IPv6 is inherently self-learning. IPv6 is incredibly cost effective.

We now see large organizations, like Google, Facebook, and Amazon, operating under IPv6. And day by day they are announcing new network-based features, for pennies, or free. Read the paper about Google's emergence from old to new [http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p183.pdf ] and be amazed at how Google was able to do more and more, using fewer and fewer resources - because they embraced IPv6 very early.

Will a full deployment of IPv6 upset the markets? Of course. But who will benefit? You and me, the consumer.  Those companies that are NOW implementing IPv6 will benefit greatly. Careers will be made. Laggards will be left behind. Remember the mainframe, and Cobol, and the swift career changer when client-servers and the C language came along.
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