Blog #9
Bill Spartin
3/25/11
8:20 am
Microsoft but in the winning bid to buy a bankrupt telecoms firm called Nortel out of all their net addresses. The firm had 666,624 version 4 (IPv4) to be sold off with the rest of their assets. Microsoft offered $11.25 per address for all of them, and investment that would run them $7.5 million. The reason for the increased value of IPv4 addresses is due to the fact that available ones are quickly running out. IPv4 has a total number of possible addresses around 4.3 billion, which in the 80's seemed sufficient but in a time where everyone has smartphones and computers it has proven to be not enough. There is a very slow shift to IPv6 occurring but for the time being companies are trying to buy up all the IPv4 addresses that they can to delay the costly change. The last of the free IPv4 addresses were handed out earlier in February, leaving acquisition of anymore open to the highest bidder. Microsoft will buy around 470,000 of the addresses with the other 200,000 being released as former customers of Nortel and move to other telecoms firms. It is not clear at this point why exactly Microsoft wants to but these addresses but many speculate it is an attempt to stall the costly transition to IPv6.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12859585
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