[At-Large] Comprehensive Study Shows IPv6 Shift Isn't Happening
[excerpt]
Despite predictions that the Internet's IPv4 protocol will run out of addresses
sometime in 2011, little seems to have been done to transition to IPv6, the new
protocol that will provide enough Internet addresses for the near future,
according to an Arbor Networks study. The study found that the there were only
about 600 Mbps of inter-domain IPv6 traffic between June 2007 and June of this
year, or just 0.0026 percent of the amount of overall IPv4 traffic. The study
also found that IPv6 traffic peaked twice between Nov. 4 and Dec. 25 of last
year. Arbor's Scott Iekel-Johnson says the largest of these spikes happened
when 1,168 people in attendance at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task
Force were asked to turn off IPv4 functionality on their network connections
and routers and test to see which sites could be accessed. Iekel-Johnson says
the fact that just under 1,200 people caused the largest spike in IPv6 traffic
over the last 12 months "speaks
volumes" about the lack of adoption of the new protocol.
Synopsis courtesy of ACM TechNews http://technews.acm.org/#375298
Full article at http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2328258,00.asp
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