Easing the transition to IPv6

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SINGAPORE: The last batch of public IPv4 addresses — a system used to identify devices such as smartphones and Tablets on a network — was given out in February by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Although the IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4) pool has been used up, there is still time to plan because many organisations haven’t completely exhausted the addresses allocated to them, said Brocade Communications Systems (Singapore), a network solutions provider.