A network administrator at a large organization notices a rapid increase in the number of devices needing network access, pushing the network's capacity limits. Which solution best addresses this scenario to prevent running out of network addresses?
Implementing IPv6 addressing to expand the network address space
Assigning only private address ranges within the network
Implementing IPv6 addressing provides a massively larger address space (128-bit) compared to IPv4's 32-bit space, eliminating the risk of address exhaustion.
Why other answers are incorrect:
Network Address Translation (NAT) conserves public IPv4 addresses by letting many hosts share one public address, but it does not create additional addresses.
More stringent subnetting can allocate the existing space more efficiently but cannot increase the total number of addresses.
Assigning only private address ranges avoids using public addresses on internal networks but still depends on a limited pool of public IPv4 addresses for external communication.
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