The web is booming, more and more people are online and more websites are popping up than ever. In fact, the number of websites and computers connected to the Internet is becoming so great, that we're running out of IP addresses to assign them. This shortage can be avoided by switching from the old and widely us... |
3 November 2009
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TCP/IP, an acronym for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, is a suite of protocols supported by Microsoft with the Windows family of platforms. Essentially, through its components, TCP/IP is used for communications on both private networks and on the Internet. As far as the world wide web is concerned, t... |
2 June 2008
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Vint Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the net, who played a key role in the development of the protocols (like the IPv4 that is currently the most used IP version in the world) which underpin the global internet has recently said: "There is a risk of not being able to get online." He added: "The rate of consumpt... |
31 October 2007
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Microsoft has set up the networking infrastructure in Windows Vista in such a manner that it requires only minimal user interaction, especially when the operating system has to interact with a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server. DHCP is designed to take the user out of the equation of assigning an Inte... |
5 October 2007
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Windows Vista will be situated at the heart of the next generation of IP addresses. Microsoft's latest operating system will provide the main infrastructure for the adoption of IPv6. The most recent predictions point out that by 2010, the current IPv4 addresses are expected to completely run out. The Internet As... |
28 May 2007
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