Sometimes it takes something extreme to get people’s attentions. For years, IT experts have been issuing warnings of an impending 512k crisis and now the day of reckoning has finally come. On Tuesday, August 12, 2014, the Internet broke under its own weight. The reason? It finally hit its arbitrary limit of more than 512,000 routes. What Caused the 512k Problem? The root cause for the 512k problem is the fact that many Internet service providers failed to upgrade their routers from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to Internet Protocol […]