Author Topic: IPv6 Traffic - 0.0026% Globally (Read 663 times)

GhostShip · « **on:** August 25, 2008, 02:44:26 pm »

Looking to the future, it seems we may have to wait a little longer for folks to get on board with the "updated" IPv6 protocol that is to be used to route Internet traffic and extend the possible range of IP addresses.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080825-researchers-ipv6-traffic-a-mere-0-0026-percent-of-total.html

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Arbor Networks, a supplier of "secure service control solutions," cooperated with some 90 ISPs and other organizations running large networks to find out more about how much IPv6 traffic is really flowing over the Internet. They measured traffic flowing through almost 2,400 routers, amounting to no less than 4.5 terabits per second. The results: about 12 megabits of Teredo traffic, which was about 10 percent of the protocol 41 traffic, for a total of some 117Mbps. The amount of native IPv6 traffic was "negligible" but only an unknown fraction of the measuring routers was able to report native IPv6 measurements.

The report cites studies that estimate the amount of native IPv6 traffic as 10 to 75 percent, so the total amount of IPv6 traffic would be 130 to 470Mbps. The measured IPv6 traffic constitutes 0.0026 percent of the total traffic.

It seems then we have a bit of time to wait until the newer protocol is employed extensively.

Cobra · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2008, 08:55:23 pm »

Not a surprise really.

A completely unrelated issue, but it is like converting the world over to electric cars when everyone has been accustom to petrol for so long. Some people are open to new things and freely buy into them. Some people aren't aware of them. Some people fear buying into them because they do not know enough about them. But most see no point in spending the money yet because what they have right now is perfectly fine and will wait until it is absolutely necessary to make the transition before they do.