By way of a message to the “ipv6-ops” mailing list this morning we learned the fun fact that according to Google’s IPv6 Statistics Switzerland has edged out Romania as the country with the most IPv6 adoption coming in at 9.47% versus Romania at 8.63%. Given that Romania has held the lead in IPv6 adoption for Read more…

We were very pleased to learn via a blog post that a new set of network operator measurements are up on the World IPv6 Launch site at: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ One of the most interesting statistics to me was that IPv6 traffic on Verizon Wireless’ network has now climbed to 26.25%.  This reflects the fact that IPv6 Read more…

Want IPv6 deployment statistics?  Want to use an interactive map to see the global deployment?  Over the past few months, Cisco’s IPv6 Lab has rolled out a very cool new IPv6 statistics site at: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/ We recently added a resource page about the site and added it to our list of IPv6 statistics sites. Pulling Read more…

Cisco maintains a comprehensive IPv6 statistics site that is updated daily at: http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/ As Alain Fiocco wrote in a very detailed blog post announcing the 6lab statistics site, there are a number of ways to interact with the data: Simply mouse over the world map to see aggregated metrics per country. Select your favorite “data Read more…

The good folks over at RIPE NCC recently published a video showing 4 days of IPv6 connectivity statistics in under 3 minutes. RIPE NCC’s Rene Wilhem goes into great detail in the companion blog post about how they measured the 60 sites included in the survey and some of their observations. As you start watching Read more…

As we’ve mentioned previously, today is the last day to let your voice be heard in the 3rd annual “IPv6 Deployment Monitoring Survey” on the current and future use of IPv6. The survey is at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GlobalIPv6survey2012 It will take just a few minutes and will go far in helping the the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Read more…

How many of the top 1 million websites (according to Alexa) are using IPv6? Hackertarget.com, a provider of online security scanning services, released an infographic summarizing their research. As they say on their page: Analysis of IPv6 enabled sites was conducted in March 2012. We have analysed the Alexa Top 1 Million sites and looked Read more…

Eric Vyncke continues to crank out interesting visualizations of IPv6-related statistics.  We’d previously written about his daily IPv6 statistics, but now he’s out with new statistics about IPv6 usage within BitTorrent P2P networks. Based on work documented in an Internet Draft, draft-vyncke-ipv6-traffic-in-p2p-networks, Eric’s interactive map is interesting to use.  At the time of this blog Read more…

Shumon Huque at the University of Pennsylvania maintains a site tracking the DNS capabilities of a selected set of universities at: http://www.huque.com/app/edudns/ The information, updated once per day, includes information about the DNSSEC and IPv6 capabilities of the institutions.

Lars Eggert tracks deployment trends for IPv6, DNSSEC, SIP, XMPP and a few other protocols at: http://eggert.org/meter/ipv6.html In his “experiment,” Lars is tracking the top 500 sites from Alexa.com both overall and for individual countries, and then performing a variety of tests on them to determine IPv6 accessibility.  As he writes (our emphasis): This experiment Read more…