Smiley Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods inc

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Smiley Kitchens is a medium-sized company that makes packaged Japanese foods including noodle and sauce combinations. Their foods are distributed to grocery stores and specialty food stores throughout Canada, Europe, and the United States. The company is moving into a new building and has hired Network Design Consultants to help them create a new network. Before the move, their head network administrator accepted a job with another company and his inexperienced assistant has been promoted as the head network administrator. Smiley Kitchens has a business and sales unit of 42 computer users. The plant in which the foods are produced, packaged, and shipped has 45 computer users. The company has both Windows Server 2008 R2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. The business and sales unit uses Windows 7 workstations. The plant users have a combination of Windows 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux computers on user’s desktops. The company plans to have Internet connectivity available to all network users. Smiley Kitchens has an outlet store across town, which provides the public with direct sales of its products. The outlet store also has Internet connectivity on a small network of 12 computers that are running Windows 7.

Smiley Kitchens wants to explore the value of converting to IPv6 over the next two years. Write at least two paragraphs that outline the advantages of IPv6

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   The World Wide Web(WWW) and most Online applications currently use IP version 4 (IPv4) of the Internet Protocol - IPv4. IP version 6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force to deal with a looming shortage of addresses under IPv4.It is the only sensible option for those building with large new networks is to use IPv6.

   IPv6 offers the potential to build a much more powerful Internet, with very vast and larger scale addresses as compared to the current senario. Addresses in IPv4 uses only 32 bits length, allowing for only about 4 billion addresses,as compared to 128-bit IPv6 addresses, with some 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses.

   IPv6 has a new feature called auto-configuration. This feature allows a device to generate an IPv6 address as soon as it is given the power. Because of this address, there is no immediate requirement for any other further infrastructure to allow or deny that device to begin communicating through the IPv6 on its local network,which also includs communications with another local host or router. If an IPv6 router is available,then any IPv6-capable device can generate a local address, as well as a globally routable address, allowing access to the much wider Internet.

   In IPv4 based networks, this requirement has been dimnished by the use of server based configuration of devices using DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) which can automatically allocate the IP addresses to new devices on the same network with the parameters values set by the network administrator. nevertheless, for this approach to work, each new device must interact with a DHCP server, which in the case of large-scale networks is time and resources intensive. Alternatively, IPv6 addresses allocations are done by the device itself and can occur solely without a server, or in conjunction with an IPv6 enabled router, as it suits.

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