A(n) class address supports 65,000 hosts on each of 16,000 networks, and allows three sections of the ip address to be devoted to host addressing.

Class B address.

Explanation:

A network is an entirety of devices (more than one) connected to communicate with which other and share resources. It uses logical IP addresses to locate and route packets to different modes within a network and to remote networks.

There are two versions of IP addresses, they are IP version 4 and 6. The IPv4 is classified into three main category.

Class A: 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255

Class B: 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255

Class C: 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255

The IP address is a 32 bit address with four separate octet ( eight bits). The Class B has 16,000 networks and 65,000 host each gotten from the binary bits after the second octet network address.