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IPv6 Report: Network Security Research

Arbor Networks IPv6 Report Arbor Networks, in partnership with more than ninety network services and content providers from around the world, has published the largest study to date of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) traffic on the Internet. IPv6 is intended to be the next primary communications protocol for packet-switched inter-networks.

The transition to IPv6 is considered important primarily because current projections indicate that there will be no more IPv4 addresses available within the next few years.

The results of a year-long research project provide, for the first time, a global perspective on the amount of IPv6 traffic on the Internet.

 

IPv6 Report Highlights:
  • The amount of aggregate inter-domain IPv6 Internet traffic appears to be increasing.
  • IPv6 traffic is still a tiny percentage of overall Internet traffic. By one conservative estimate, by the end of July 2008, there was about 600 Mbps of inter-domain IPv6 traffic compared to 4 Tbps of IPv4 traffic. In other words, tunneled IPv6 traffic represented only 0.0026% of overall IPv4 traffic.
  • The proportion of IPv6 vs. IPv4 traffic stayed roughly the same over the last year.

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