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  • initialism Internet Protocol version 4, current version in use.

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Examples

  • CIOs, as news of the rapid depletion of IP addresses using the current standard – known as IPv4 – reaches corporate IT departments.

    Verizon's phone rings off the hook with IPv6 questions 2010

  • Most of today's internet uses IPv4, which is now nearly twenty years old.

    IPv6 and its Future prospect in developing countries 2010

  • Most of today's internet uses IPv4, which is now nearly twenty years old.

    IPv6 and its Future prospect in developing countries 2010

  • Carriers and enterprises are deploying IPv6 because the available pool of IP addresses using the current standard, known as IPv4, is dwindling.

    No IPv6 plan? You're behind schedule 2010

  • Most of today's internet uses IPv4, which is now nearly twenty years old.

    Archive 2005-03-01 Peter Zura 2005

  • At a special ceremony in Miami on Thursday, the organization that oversees the global allocation of Internet addresses distributed the last batch of so-called IPv4 addresses, underscoring the extent to which the Web has become an integral and pervasive part of modern life.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • Every internet connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned an IP address made up of four sets of digits which allows it to communicate with the net - running off a system known as IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Every internet connected computer, smartphone, car, gadget and gizmo is assigned an IP address made up of four sets of digits which allows it to communicate with the net - running off a system known as IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • At a special ceremony in Miami on Thursday, the organization that oversees the global allocation of Internet addresses distributed the last batch of so-called IPv4 addresses, underscoring the extent to which the Web has become an integral and pervasive part of modern life.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

  • At a special ceremony in Miami on Thursday, the organization that oversees the global allocation of Internet addresses distributed the last batch of so-called IPv4 addresses, underscoring the extent to which the Web has become an integral and pervasive part of modern life.

    Reuters: Top News 2011

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