ground effect

Internode CIO Frank Falco said 2011 was expected to be “crunch time” for the availability of IPv4 addresses. “Current projections suggest global allocations will run out by the middle of next year,” he said. “Next year being the crunch time doesn’t mean everything will stop immediately, but anyone with IPv4 addresses will be much more careful about allocating them.”

“In October 2010, only 12 blocks remained available from the original 256 IPv4 blocks: The point is that we used 11 blocks in the first eight months of this year, so at that rate we’re likely to run out by mid-2011.”