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Internet Protocol version 10 (IPv10).

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Internet Protocol version 10 (IPv10) v Introduction: - Internet is the global wide network used for communication between hosts connected to it. - These connected hosts (PCs, servers, routers, mobile devices, etc.) must have a global unique addresses to be able to communicate through the Internet and these unique addresses are defined in the Internet Protocol (IP). - The first version of the Internet Protocol is IPv4. - When IPv4 was developed in 1975, it was not expected that the number of connected hosts to the Internet reach a very huge number of hosts more than the IPv4 address space, also it was aimed to be used for experimental purposes in the beginning. - IPv4 is (32-bits) address allowing approximately 4.3 billion unique public IP addresses. - A few years ago, with the massive increase of connected hosts to the Internet, IPv4 addresses started to run out. - Three short-term solutions (CIDR, Private addressing, and NAT) were introduced in the mid-1990