The proportion of IPv6 traffic remains tiny
Although ICANN no longer had free IPv4 addresses (the last blocks / 8 were given away on February 3, 2011), the share of IPv6 traffic on the Internet is only 0.25% [ Arbor Networks ]. Worse, over the past six months, the volume of IPv6 traffic has decreased in relative terms by 12%, while IPv4 traffic has grown by 40–60%. Internet providers continue to be perverted with NAT, ignoring IPv6.
This is a truly depressing result, considering how much effort I had to put on the promotion of IPv6 over the past fifteen years.
Arbor Networks experts believe that the industry’s rejection of the IPv6 standard is associated with technical problems and difficulties in network design, lack of economic incentives and lack of IPv6 content.
The largest IPv6 applications are peer-to-peer networks, which provide 61% of the total amount of data transmitted over IPv6. For comparison, in IPv4 networks, peer-to-peer networks provide only 8% of traffic, that is, we see a clear imbalance, which indicates that the remaining IPv6 applications are not immaturity.
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HTTP traffic is 19% for IPv4 and 4.6% for IPv6.
Online video (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) is almost half of IPv4 traffic and absolute zero for IPv6. This is a rather ironic situation, because Netflix.com is one of the few large sites available in the IPv6 address space.
Companies and private users whose ISPs do not support IPv6 can use tunneling. During a 24-hour interval, one day in February, Arbor Networks discovered more than 250,000 such tunnels on the Internet. Over 90% of them were serviced by the five largest brokers, including Hurricane Electric, Anycast and Microsoft Teredo.
On February 3, 2011, ICANN distributed the last five blocks of IPv4 addresses to regional registrars, and now the time has come when they start to end their addresses. So, on April 15, began to distribute the last block / 8 Asian Asia Pacific Network Information Center. He now gives a maximum of 1024 IP-addresses in one hand. According to forecasts, by the end of this summer, all registrars will start doing the same.
Is the Internet ready for the transition to IPv6? Soon we will check it out. On June 8, the International Day of IPv6 is appointed, when the global stress test of the network infrastructure for the maximum load of IPv6 traffic will take place. The test has already been announced by Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, Limelight Networks and the Internet Society. On this day, they will all include IPv6 in their core services for 24 hours.
This is a truly depressing result, considering how much effort I had to put on the promotion of IPv6 over the past fifteen years.
Arbor Networks experts believe that the industry’s rejection of the IPv6 standard is associated with technical problems and difficulties in network design, lack of economic incentives and lack of IPv6 content.
The largest IPv6 applications are peer-to-peer networks, which provide 61% of the total amount of data transmitted over IPv6. For comparison, in IPv4 networks, peer-to-peer networks provide only 8% of traffic, that is, we see a clear imbalance, which indicates that the remaining IPv6 applications are not immaturity.
')
HTTP traffic is 19% for IPv4 and 4.6% for IPv6.
Online video (Netflix, YouTube, etc.) is almost half of IPv4 traffic and absolute zero for IPv6. This is a rather ironic situation, because Netflix.com is one of the few large sites available in the IPv6 address space.
Companies and private users whose ISPs do not support IPv6 can use tunneling. During a 24-hour interval, one day in February, Arbor Networks discovered more than 250,000 such tunnels on the Internet. Over 90% of them were serviced by the five largest brokers, including Hurricane Electric, Anycast and Microsoft Teredo.
On February 3, 2011, ICANN distributed the last five blocks of IPv4 addresses to regional registrars, and now the time has come when they start to end their addresses. So, on April 15, began to distribute the last block / 8 Asian Asia Pacific Network Information Center. He now gives a maximum of 1024 IP-addresses in one hand. According to forecasts, by the end of this summer, all registrars will start doing the same.
Is the Internet ready for the transition to IPv6? Soon we will check it out. On June 8, the International Day of IPv6 is appointed, when the global stress test of the network infrastructure for the maximum load of IPv6 traffic will take place. The test has already been announced by Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai, Limelight Networks and the Internet Society. On this day, they will all include IPv6 in their core services for 24 hours.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/117926/
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