On Friday, October 2, 2015, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.nordd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why are some people here asserting that IPv6 failed when it looks like it > is actually taking off pretty good right now? > > https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html > > Jan 2013 about 1% > Jan 2014 about 2.5% > Jan 2015 about 5% > It is already past 9% so we will be at least at 10% by Jan 2016. > > Looks like a good exponential growth to me. > > The numbers for USA are even better at 21%. > > Traffic volume is also taking off: > > https://www.akamai.com/us/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/visualizing-akamai/ipv6-traffic-volume.jsp > > I will bet you good money that in a not too distant future we will see that > IPv6 moves more bytes than IPv4. > > For some of us, IPv6 is already more bytes than IPv4. Youtube and netflix and fb will push the bytes if the users request it. CB > The IPv6 protocol is 17 years so it failed argument is meaningless. Maybe > we needed IPv4 exhaustion before IPv6 could take off. No matter the reason, > it is happening now. > > Regards, > > Baldur >