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You are a network engineer for an IT consulting firm named F1IT. One of your cli

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You are a network engineer for an IT consulting firm named F1IT. One of your clients, Beautivision, a chain of plastic surgery clinics with 80 locations nationwide, has asked you to prepare a proposal for implementing IPv6 in Beautivision’s corporate headquarters, its WAN network, and its clinic locations. In preparation, you need to create a one- to two-page memo that describes the main differences between IPv4 and IPv6. Instead of writing the memo to Mary Jane Newman, communications manager for Beautivision, provide some differences in the protocols that you and your classmates will discuss. --Consider why IPv4 is being replaced. --What characteristics are similar in the protocols? --What characteristics are different in the protocols?

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The answer is as follows:
IPv4- The Internet Protocol version 4 is used on packet switched Link Layer networks (like Ethernet). It has addressing capability of 4.3 billion addresses.
IPv6 - The Internet Protocol version 6 is more advanced compared to IPv4. It has better features.It can provide infinite number opf addresses.It solves IPv4 exhaustion problem and meets the demand of growing number of networks.
The appearance of IP addresses is different in both cases. IPv4 is four 1 byte decimal number separated by dot (e.g 192.168.1.2). In case of IPv6 the IP address consists of hexadecimal numbers separated by colons. (e.g is fe80::d4a8:6435:d2d8:d9f3b11). The number of bits in IP address in case of IPv4 IS 32 whereas in case of IPv6 it is 128. The way to ping in case of IPv4 is ping xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx whereas in case of IPv6 it is ping6
IPv6 is more compatible to mobile networks than IPv4. The payload capacity of IPv6 is more than IPv4.IPv6 simplifies router's task compared to IPv4. Still only 1% of the networks are using IPv6 but 99% of networks are using IPv4.

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