DocAndersen
The number of devices most people have at home today is two connected in the house on average with a global average of one device per home. While I do understand that outside the US or the old RoW argument is invalid (Rest of the world) I will undo that original statement with a more proactive view.
US 2 devices per house
EU 2 devices per house
China 2 devices per house
India 2 devices per house
The total currently being a little north of 3 devices per person globally, but the reality is that other than the areas listed above the numbers drop radically. There is no need for connected devices in places that don’t have the infrastructure to support that today. Now if we break this into a more realistic distribution, we will find that many organizations, government, and commercial have many more devices per employee. If we don’t count cellular phones the numbers drop, but they are part of the internet of everything (IoE). We also don’t’ count devices that don’t have their connection (I have a speaker that connects only to my phone or tablet. It is not a connected device, it connects to a device to connect).
Today the number of devices that are connected has continued to expand rapidly. The number of connected devices has gone from less than 7 billion globally to more than 21 billion globally. These devices include remote sensors, cameras, and other security devices and weather stations.
No, not all 21 billion devices are in my house.
I do, however, know thanks to Fing, how many devices are connected and when new device connect. I have one network in my house that doesn’t connect to anything other than the internet and IoE devices. You can’t log into that network and print or look at files. That is one purpose, to separate and firewall the IoE devices. I don’t have security on that network other than Fing watching connections, on purpose.
The future of IoE is the reality of networks. Without a solid network, you can guarantee your IoE systems are going to become useless slowly.
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Question of
Have you ever actually looked at the code of an application you use?
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Do you have devices that connect to connected devices?
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you set me up for it, and I can’t walk away from a setup…
according to my children, neither can I. Dad jokes are the rule of the day!
It is the prerogative of fathers to blindside their offspring with dad jokes. My dad loved to wind me up with the classic “your OTHER left…”
I never use the classic “your other left.” I always look at the twin in question smile and say “oh, its reverse polarity day.”
they groan. Very effective!
opposites day is dangerous
it is the greatest dad weapon of all!!!!
authority is the ultimate dad weapon
It truly can be, sometimes, however, compassion is the weapon of choice!
not the parental guilt trip- anything but that!
that one, compassion, requires careful use. Overuse it, and you hurt both the development and the relationship.
also, the less you use it, the more devastating it is when you finally do…
you can see where a 32 bit addressing space just isn’t going to cut it anymore…
up, also why people were so scared that we would run out of IPv4 addresses even with Natting and hidden networks.
Even without all the usage restrictions on IPv4, it is clearly not large enough for everyone to have several devices with a unique IP, and then all the severs on top of that…
just that alone is a massive hole! But the new gateways are interesting (all devices connected to the internet via the gateway that is connected to the internet. In theory, if I use private IP on the inside, to a single public IP on the outside IPv4 could survive nearly to 2024 before it died under the weight of IoE devices.
If everyone were NATting and had a single IP address per household then IPv4 could probably limp by for a while longer but it is also inherently insecure so time to migrate regardless…
Plus the risk for law enforcement would be huge. I can hack a home network and attack with a single IP address. making it really hard to trace.
Unless you can spoof your MAC address, you’re still pretty traceable. And if you spoof your MAC, how are you going to get any packets back?
Actually if I am spoofing my mac address I don’t want packets back. I am most likely using point to point (direct IP address) to connect. Or as it sometimes called the dark web.
What a stupid name, the dark web. The entire internet seen or unseen runs on fiber optic networks. or light!
are you suggesting the dark web can only be transmitted along the UV spectrum?
ROFL that was the perfect comment, Alex. You win the prize for the first laugh today!
You’re probably the only one here who would get that…
possibly, 🙂 but it still made me laugh today reading it again.