Paxton investing to combat IP addresses problems
Paxton Access
Invest to combat IP addresses problems
Electronic security industry experts, Paxton are investing in IPv6 to ensure they can overcome problems in the industry when the world Runs out of IP addresses.
Paxton are designing their award winning networked security solutions with a new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6 in mind.
Currently, the depletion of the pool of available IPv4 addresses is a serious problem.
The result of the IP drought will mean more expensive internet connections, particularly for business services.
Organisations will be asked to hand back spare addresses or pay more for them.
At a time when the number of devices connecting to the net is increasing rapidly, this problem has to be resolved.
Changing to IPv6 is a significant task, requiring new equipment and infrastructure.
IT departments will have to acquire new skills and make changes to their networks and servers.
However, Paxton have already made a real investment in research and training in this new network technology.
They are now one of very few companies in the world with its own website and internal network already operating on IPv6.
The existing protocol, IPv4, has been around since the 1970s, when such dramatic growth of the internet was not even a consideration.
Nobody thought of a world with over three billion connected devices on one network.
However, the gradual realisation that IP addresses would one day run out completely has seen the creation of several new technologies, including Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) methods, network address translation (NAT) and the new version of the Internet Protocol, IPv6.
IPv6 is the most practical and readily available solution to the limit of IPv4.
Where IP addresses are getting bigger, the new standard IPv6 address contains 128 bits compared with 32 bits for IPv4.
This means that the number of connected devices could in theory be around 3 with 38 noughts after it, therefore solving the current problem.
Paxton's significant investment in this new technology, once again single them out as a customer- focussed company committed to engineering excellence and IT expertise.
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