What is IPv6

Internet Protocol Version 6 or commonly known as "Next Generation Network" is a 128-bit TCP/IP internet architecture which is an upgrade of IPv4. The 32-bit IPv4 has been in existence for as long as internet has lived. But the internet continues to grow second by second with extraordinary leapfrogs. As a corollary, the 32-bit IPv4 addressing space has become extremely diminutive as addresses get depleted. NGN or IPv6 was invented to solve the conundrum. The benefits that come with IPv6 permeate every nook and cranny of the mobile internet. One benefit is "host multihoming". A host on a multihomed IPv6 network can carry more than one ip address. This implies the host can be reached on any of the addresses. Needless to say, this mechanism gives us an assurance of fault tolerance, resilience, load balancing, reliability and traffic engineering.