Internet traffic jam to be unstuck
The European Commission (EC) has called for urgent action to accelerate the rollout of next-generation Internet technologies before the current maximum of four billion Web addresses is reached. "Without an upgrade the Internet will inevitably degrade under the mounting pressure of new users and growing traffic," said Commissioner Erkki Liikanen at the end of last week.
The EC's Ipv6 Priorities for Action campaign calls on Europe to accelerate the rollout of the next-generation IP (Internet Protocol), Ipv6, which would provide several quadrillion addresses for each person on the planet. In theory, this would create more locations in cyberspace than there are grains of sand in the world.
But experts at Cisco Systems Inc., responsible for the rollout of the Ipv6 infrastructure, think the situation is not quite so urgent.
"The Internet isn't going to grind to a halt," said a Cisco spokesman. "There's likely to be a number of new devices, domestic electronics and mobile technology connecting to the Internet, and at some point the current IP capacity will run out. But whether this will be by 2005 can not fairly be predicted."
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