Glossary:IP

IP or Internet Protocol is a set of standards defining how data (whether it be it web pages, emails or anything else), broken up into individually addressed packets, is moved across the Internet from a source to a destination. The Internet mainly uses Version 4 (IPv4) but the number of possible IPv4 addresses has been virtually exhausted. Version 6 (IPv6) provides a vastly increased number of addresses but has yet to see wide scale adoption on the Internet as a whole since interoperation is not straightforward.