The IPv6 protocol provides virtually limitless address space that will never run out. The protocol is used by government, universities, and private sector companies that require consistent access to Internet for smooth and uninterrupted delivery of their services or products.
OpenText™ Connectivity solutions support IPv6 and integrate seamlessly with the native network layers offered by the underlying operating system.
The following OpenText Connectivity products support IPv6:
An IPv4 address is a numerical representation of computers, which sit underneath the friendly names we use, like connectivity.opentext.com.
According to Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), an organization responsible for delegating Internet resources, the last five /8 blocks was allocated to each regional organization overseeing the net-address assignments (RIR) on February 3, 2011. It marked the official depletion of the global IPv4 address pool, which has the size of 3.7 billion addresses.
In turn, each RIR will slowly exhaust its allotted address pool. Yet, new devices will be constantly added to the Internet - now and into the future.