All computers directly connected to the internet must have an individual unique address, and the IPv4 scheme used since the 1980s has a 32-bit address space that provides only 4,294,967,296 ...

Now, that space can be worth tens of millions of ... NAT is a technology which was designed in 1994 to reduce the number of ...

In other words, IPv6 has a much larger address space and embedded functionality ... However, as the number of available IPv4 ...