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IPv6

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, IPv6 means: Version 6 of the Internet Protocol, which uses 128-bit addresses written as groups of hexadecimal digits separated by colons, such as 2001:db8::1, giving an almost unlimited number of addresses.

In Turkish: IPv6, İnternet Protokolü sürüm 6

How it is used

Said 'eye-pee-vee-six'. Mobile operators and large content providers use it widely; many companies run IPv4 and IPv6 side by side, which is called dual stack. Engineers enable, deploy, roll out and troubleshoot IPv6.

Example sentences

  1. Our mobile customers mostly reach the website over IPv6.

  2. Before we roll out IPv6, we need to update the firewall rules as well.

Common collocations

  • IPv6 address
  • enable IPv6
  • IPv6 rollout
  • dual stack
  • IPv6 prefix
  • IPv4Version 4 of the Internet Protocol, which uses 32-bit addresses written as four numbers from 0 to 255 separated by dots, such as 192.168.10.5; it allows about 4.3 billion addresses.
  • IP addressA unique numerical label given to every device on an IP network so that data can be sent to it, for example 192.168.1.20 in IPv4.
  • CIDRShort for Classless Inter-Domain Routing: the system of writing an IP network as an address plus a prefix length, such as 192.168.0.0/22, which replaced the old fixed address classes.
  • NATShort for network address translation: a method in which a router or firewall rewrites the addresses in packets, typically so that many devices with private addresses can share one public IP address.
  • subnetA smaller range of IP addresses inside a larger network such as a VPC, used to group resources and control which of them can reach the internet.

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