How to force rapid ipv6 adoption

Ca By cb.list6 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 3 01:25:42 UTC 2015


On Friday, October 2, 2015, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Why are some people here asserting that IPv6 failed when it looks like it
> is actually taking off pretty good right now?
>
> https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
>
> Jan 2013 about 1%
> Jan 2014 about 2.5%
> Jan 2015 about 5%
> It is already past 9% so we will be at least at 10% by Jan 2016.
>
> Looks like a good exponential growth to me.
>
> The numbers for USA are even better at 21%.
>
> Traffic volume is also taking off:
>
> https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/visualizing-akamai/ipv6-traffic-volume.jsp
>
> I will bet you good money that in a not too distant future we will see that
> IPv6 moves more bytes than IPv4.
>
>

For some of us, IPv6 is already more bytes than IPv4. Youtube and netflix
and fb will push the bytes if the users request it.

CB


> The IPv6 protocol is 17 years so it failed argument is meaningless. Maybe
> we needed IPv4 exhaustion before IPv6 could take off. No matter the reason,
> it is happening now.
>
> Regards,
>
> Baldur
>



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