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Article: Protecting a scarce resource: how to remedy IP address management challenges. (Networking: advanced networking technology).
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- CED
- Article date:
- August 1, 2003
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Despite the downturn in the economy, service providers in the cable and telecom industries are continuing to add high-speed Internet customers, with last year's record growth continuing into 2003. In fact, nearly one-third of America's Internet users now connect via broadband (1). Besides this pure growth in access, the deployment of new services such as voice- and video-over-IP is increasing the demand for IP address space. At the same time, service providers are acquiring and/or consolidating disparate IP-based networks, creating larger heterogeneous networks that dramatically increase the complexity of IP address management because of noncontiguous address block ...