IPv6 adoption

[rpm]

IPv6 adoption and traffic

Akamai’s State of the Internet Report shows some trends in the global adoption of IPv6

 

[elp]

Does anyone have any idea when Telkom will upgrade their IPC infrastructure to handle IPv6?

And the hosting companies. For crying in a bucket!!! All your tier one bandwidth providers can give you IPv6 for no extra cost. What are you waiting for?

 

[cfilorux]

No, I have no idea

Does anyone have any idea when Telkom will upgrade their IPC infrastructure to handle IPv6?

I think they are waiting for their Afrinic IP allocations to run out first. Then they will have a meeting. Then someone will say "bitstream" and someone else will say "management said" and they will reschedule for a month later.

 

[Domains.co.za (Wayne)]

And the hosting companies. For crying in a bucket!!! All your tier one bandwidth providers can give you IPv6 for no extra cost. What are you waiting for?

We are glad to say that www.domains.co.za supports native IPV6 throughout our entire infrastructure

 

[OrbitalDawn]

What's the benefit over 4?

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

Most of the hosting companies I've worked with have support already.

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

What's the benefit 4?

IPv4 has a limited amount of address space and it's running out.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

IPv4 has a limited amount of address space and it's running out.

Ah, so more about necessity than anything else?

 

[ponder]

Ah, so more about necessity than anything else?

IPv6 also has some other features not present in IPv4.

 

[Azriel]

So I was wondering what the latest news on this is? A quick Google on IPv6 South Africa shows results from 3-4 years ago, and they all say how enthusiastic Everton sis and they'll be giving out IPv6 addresses soon.

So, who knows when "soon" is? What's the latest? Still waiting on Telkom?

 

[ToxicBunny]

Basically Afrinic has the largest block of unallocated IPv4 address space atm (as far as I remember) so we are slightly less harried than the rest of the world....

I expect widespread IPv6 adoption to take another 5 years conservatively.

 

[ambo]

Yes - there is this terrible misconception that since there are still IPv4 addresses available for us in Africa there is no reason to switch. What is actually happening is that we're being left behind while the rest of the migrates to the next generation Internet.

The global uptake of IPv6 by Google users has just crossed 6%. This is probably a fairly good benchmark for global adoption. South Africa is less than 0,1%.

Much of the slow uptake is due to limitations on Telkom's ADSL making native IPv6 impossible. I suspect that those with access to fibre services will start having access to IPv6 soon though.

There has also been a pretty poor showing from the mobile operators. Three years ago they were saying there was no device support which was partially true. That had now changed and the majority of devices being sold have IPv6 capability. We're just waiting for the networks to catch a wake up.

 

[Valerion]

I've recently tried to convince Neotel to give me a IPv6 allocation over my fibre link. They said they don't do this yet, but they are happy to announce our prefix if I obtain one from AfriNIC directly.

Almost sounds tempting, but I am not sure of the costs involved to get a /48 + AS number.

 

[milomak]

what are the other practical implications of this other than more ips available?

 

[ambo]

what are the other practical implications of this other than more ips available?

To some extent its all about the availability of more IPs but its not just about an ISP having more customers.

One of the other major mind shifts is the elimination of NAT. This restores the end-to-end communication between all devices on the Internet. This democratises the Internet as you don't need to have anything special to run a server. This becomes particularly important when you start thinking about the Internet of Things (IoT) trends with thousands of devices needing to communicate with each other without have to do NAT traversal tricks.