by Tom Fantacone | Sep 17, 2020 | Company News, Industry News
LACNIC, Latin America’s registry of internet number resources, joined ARIN, APNIC and RIPE by allowing Inter-Regional transfers of IPv4 addresses to and from members of these other regions. The policy, years in the making, was implemented by LACNIC on July 21, 2020....
by Mike Burns | Oct 31, 2018 | Industry News
The article linked below caused me to reflect on my memorable first Internet experience. It is growing increasingly harder to convey the eeriness of the feelings I had upon my first contact with the Internet. In today’s connected world it is hard to remember the...
by Mike Burns | Oct 29, 2018 | Industry News, Market Status, Our Thoughts
The author of the article linked below, without mentioning NAT at all, comes to an important conclusion about IPv4 scarcity. He senses that there is a distinction between the absolute number of devices connected to the Internet and the number of devices which require...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News
A new wireless carrier in London, Relish, has announced the deployment of a 4G LTE network. This network is running Carrier Grade NAT to get around problems of IPv4 scarcity. The company announced that they had completed rigorous testing of their CGN implementation...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News
“But a surprising thing happened: because of workarounds that allow many devices to share one address, IPv4 is still used, even though the number of devices now vastly outnumbers the number of available addresses. Most sites and network operators aren’t even...
by Mike Burns | Oct 25, 2018 | Industry News, Our Thoughts
A dual-stack transition model was decided upon by the IETF as the appropriate one to use in the transition from IPV4 to IPV6. This was not unreasonable. Since the benefits of NAT (Network Address Translation) started to become apparent around that same time period,...
