IPv6 and CDN's

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Fri Nov 26 23:06:00 UTC 2021


On 11/26/21 1:44 PM, Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote:
>
> Here are some maths and 1 argument kicking ass pitch for CFO’s that 
> use iphones.
>
> *Apple tells app devs to use IPv6 as it's 1.4 times faster than IPv4*
>
> https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-tells-app-devs-to-use-ipv6-as-its-1-4-times-faster-than-ipv4/
>
> Build around that maybe?
>
>
This really hits my bs meter big time. I can't see how nat'ing is going 
to cause a 40% performance hit during connections. The article also 
mentions http2 (and later v3) which definitely make big improvements so 
I'm suspecting that the author is conflating them.

Mike
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