The world's largest CDN is ready to enable IPv6

In April, Akamai - the largest content delivery network in the world - will be ready to enable IPv6 . From Akamai server passes from 20 to 30 percent of global Internet traffic at an average speed of 5 Terabits per second. Work on preparing the huge Akamai infrastructure for the transition to IPv6 took two years. Akamai has 105,000 servers in 78 countries . Customers include Apple, the US government and China Central Television.

Akamai engineers claim that transferring their infrastructure to a new protocol was much more difficult than Google, which last summer participated in the international IPv6 day . The content delivery network should be as close as possible to the end user and therefore cannot be concentrated in several giant data centers with homogeneous architecture.

The transition of the network giant to IPv6 will greatly accelerate the adoption of a new Internet protocol around the world. In addition, by September 30 of this year, all US government agencies are required to support IPv6 , and World IPv6 launch day is scheduled for June 6. Unlike last year’s June 8th, many major websites are going to turn on the new protocol on an ongoing basis. The campaign will be joined by providers and manufacturers of home routers, which from this day are going to enable IPv6 by default in their devices. So 2012 can be the year of the biggest upgrade in the more than forty-year history of the Internet.