Comcast, Netflix report rise in IPv6 activity
25 Mar 2010
The Internet industry is seeing evidence that more consumers, corporations and Web sites are deploying IPv6, the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, which is known as IPv4. But IPv6 remains a fraction of Internet traffic, and it’s nowhere near where it should be given the rapid depletion of IPv4 addresses.
Comcast, Netflix and APNIC were among the Internet companies and organizations that provided new statistics about IPv6 deployment at an Internet Society panel held here on Tuesday.
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