We have had occasion in the past to lament the relatively low uptake of IPv6 to date, despite a growth in the number of connected devices. Analysis by Cisco suggests that this situation will improve somewhat in Australia, but even so less than half of all internet-connected devices worldwide will be IPv6-capable by 2017.
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Data compiled for Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) (we covered some other figures from the study last week) suggests that in Australia there will be 124 million total IPV6 connected-devices in 2017, up from 17 million in 2012, and 85 per cent of connected devices will be IPv6-capable. That will be something of an anomaly in global terms, where the numbers are much lower:
Note that the chart covers devices capable of using IPv6, which doesn’t necessarily mean they will use it. Many carriers use network address translation (NAT) to share IPv4 addresses amongst a larger group of devices, and that behaviour shows little sign of stopping.
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4 responses to “IPv6 Still Slow To Attract Support”
If telstra handed out ipv6 addresses for non-business customers for free (currently they don’t hand any out at all except to enterprise customers who have to pay for it i think) i would totally switch my home network over, until then, good luck getting most of Australian’s to switch.
I really do wish i was with Internode sometimes.
Telstra and some other large Australian ISP’s are really dragging the chain on IPV6.
It is a pretty pisspoor effort.
why don’t ISPs just give us all ipv6 addresses?
I don’t want to have to remember that many numbers!!!