Updated 03-10-09 The web monitoring company Pingdom says that IPv6 traffic at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the Internet’s biggest exchange, accounted for just 0.25 percent of total Internet traffic.
rb- Who says IPv6 isn’t coming? This study shows a 250% increase in IPv6 use from the data reported by Arbor Networks in September 2008.
Arbor Networks released a study The E
nd is Near but is IPv6? which says the adoption of IPv6 has been very slow thus far. The network security vendor produced the study along with the University of Michigan and about 100 ISPs and content companies. It suggested that IPv6 adoption is growing but currently amounts to less than one-hundredth of 1% of Internet traffic.
As has been pointed out in this blog IPv4 addresses are running out, but IPv6 is still trying to gain some traction.
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