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AVWeek Episode 176: Not George Clooney

As 2014 turns into 2015 our panelists look back at the biggest stories and technologies of the past year. We also look ahead to what 2015 may bring. Will this be the year of “affordable” OLED? Will AVB bring the V? Will Cisco finally buy a control system? Listen or watch and see if you agree with or assessments.

Host: Tim Albright

Guests:  Dawn Meade, George Tucker, Matt D Scott

Record Date: 1/2/2015

Running Time: 1:02:19

 

 

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  1. A little clarification on IPv4 versus IPv6. The typical display of the IPv4 is dotted decimal octet to be human friendly; as indicated the IPv6 is typically displayed as hexadecimal, not truly alphanumeric. Also in IPv6 the change from dotted decimal octet to colon separated hexadecimal of four values is mainly to make it easier for humans to deal with. The bigger difference is that the IPv4 address is a 32 bit address capable of representing 4,294,967,295 different values; IPv6 is a 128 bit address capable of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 values. Displaying those numbers in reasonable format is the reason for directly expressing the value as hexadecimal instead of just decimal.

  2. A little clarification on IPv4 versus IPv6. The typical display of the IPv4 is dotted decimal octet to be human friendly; as indicated the IPv6 is typically displayed as hexadecimal, not truly alphanumeric. Also in IPv6 the change from dotted decimal octet to colon separated hexadecimal of four values is mainly to make it easier for humans to deal with. The bigger difference is that the IPv4 address is a 32 bit address capable of representing 4,294,967,295 different values; IPv6 is a 128 bit address capable of 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 values. Displaying those numbers in reasonable format is the reason for directly expressing the value as hexadecimal instead of just decimal.

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