First comprehensive survey of IPv6 reveals negligible usage

In the most comprehensive study of actual IPv6 usage to date, Arbor Networks worked with the University of Michigan and close to 100 Internet providers in order to measure actual inter-domain IPv6 traffic on the Internet. The resulting dataset spans a quarter of the Tier-1 ISPs, and involves the monitoring of traffic originating from 2,389 peering and backbone routers. Out of an average aggregate of 15 exabytes of traffic per day, the data shows that the percentage of IPv6 traffic, both native and tunneled, peaks at a mere one hundredth of 1 percent of Internet traffic as a whole.

It is clear that the original deployment plans for IPv6 have failed miserably. Still, perhaps IPv6 will succeed at the end of the day, if for no other reason than there are no ready alternatives.

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