Indhira Kumar

Proxy vs VPN

What is VPN? VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, it establishes a secure and encrypted connection to all of your network traffic, providing a private tunnel for replacing your public network. The encryption takes place in real time. How does it work? A VPN hides your IP address by rerouting the network through the configured …

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Regional Internet Registries

Regional Internet Registries (RIR) manage internet number resources, including IPV4, IPV6 addresses, and Autonomous System Numbers (ASN) within a specific region in the world. There are five RIRs in the world. Five Regions of RIR All five RIRs combined to form the Number Resource Organization (NRO) which was established in the year 2003. The NRO …

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What is IPv4 Exhaustion and How Hosting Companies Deals with it ?

Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses are the most important for the functioning of the internet, every time when a new device is connected to the internet it requires a unique numerical label. Devices need IP Address to connect to any network. Hosting companies completely rely on IP Address to deliver their services, IPv4 Address has become …

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Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP)

Cloud migration is a challenging transformation for enterprises and they are usually confronted with several problems.  One of them being changing the public IPv4 addresses of your enterprise. Public IP addresses are an important IT asset for enterprises, changing or procuring them often may lead to unexpected costs. This is where the concept of Bring …

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IPv4 Address Leasing

Why IPv4 Leasing? IPv4 address leasing has become more popular these days as the companies who have lower budget, short term usage can invest on IP Leasing than IP Buying. The lessees don’t have to invest huge costs when compared to IPv4 buying. Also, the IPv4 leasing is more flexible than buying because this allows …

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What is Subnetting and How to Calculate Usable Hosts and Subnets in a Network

Subnetting concept can be explained as an efficient way to prevent wastage of IP Address by dividing a larger IP address into multiple smaller addresses that work as an individual unit known as “SUBNET”, and in host network it is known as “SUBNETTING”. This concept can make networks more efficient by enabling network traffic to …

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Provider Aggregatable and provider Independent comparison

IP addresses around the world are managed by IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority)and five designated territory RIR’s (Reginal Internet Registries) for assignment to LIR’s (Local Internet registries) i.e., ISP (Internet Service Provider) and other larger organizations. Provider Aggregatable (PA) and provider Independent (PI) are the two categories of IP Addresses. PI can be shifted to other …

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