IPv6 Deployment and Management by Michael Dooley

A 10% increase in broadband penetration yields an average GDP increase of 1.38%. But what circumstances would facilitate such expansion? A recent study by the World Bank concluded that in low- and middle-income countries, for every 10% increase in Internet penetration, the country's average economic growth increases by 1.12% as measured by gross domestic product (GDP). And with the likelihood of multiple devices required per user, this expansion will create accelerated demand for Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. With worldwide penetration of Internet users at just 34%, there seems to be plenty of room for an expanding Internet population. If popular Internet applications like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google, Blogger, shopping, and news sites, and even good old email were suddenly rendered unavailable, most people would not know what to do with themselves! Today's Internet users generally find this ubiquitous availability of wide variety of information and applications indispensable in their day-to-day lives. Email was the second key Internet application that contributed to the widespread adoption of Internet services during the mid-1990s. With the invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee, defining the hypertext linking of information over a network such as the Internet through the use of a web browser, this innovation of simple point-and-click user interface brought the Internet out of government and science laboratories and into ordinary people's lives. Department of Defense, it has evolved into a global communications phenomenon.

Invented in the late 1960s as a resilient interconnected network of networks for the U.S.

IPv6 Deployment and Management by Michael Dooley