Web traffic volumes will almost double every two years from 2007 to 2012, driven by video and web 2.0 applications, according to a report from Cisco Systems. Increased use of video and social networking has created what Cisco calls 'visual networking', which is raising traffic volumes at a compound annual growth rate of 46 per cent.Cisco's Visual Networking Index (PDF) predicts that visual networking will account for 90 per cent of the traffic coursing through the world's IP networks by 2012. The upward trend is not only driven by consumer demand for YouTube clips and IPTV, according to the report, as business use of video conferencing will grow at 35 per cent CAGR over the same period.
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I'm pretty sure it will solve the problem for centuries to come. IPv4 supports up to 4.3 billion addresses, whereas with IPv6, you could distribute 50 octillion addresses for every single human on Earth!!!
well, either ipv6 will help or it will not.
And ipv6 should technically help. Which means it will improve this somewhat.
ipv6 has everything to do with it; ipv6 has better management of bandwidth and so forth; I've only had a brief over view of the specs, but it is alot more than just 'more addresses'.
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