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BT survey indicates movement on IPv6 deployments

We recently invited network engineers to participate in an online industry survey to characterize opinions and attitudes about IPv6 deployment in their networks. We’ve conducted this survey for five years running now, and we’ve observed a steady climb in the proportion of survey participants who have deployed or were actively deploying IPv6. This year’s survey didn’t disappoint, as we saw continued IPv6 deployment progress with over half of survey participants indicating they had deployed or were in the process of deploying IPv6. This tally represented a fifteen percent higher proportion that in last year’s survey. Deploying IPv6 is necessary for organizations to continue to communicate with all users on the “ total Internet ,” which is slowly evolving from a homogeneous IPv4 Internet to a mixed protocol IPv4-IPv6 Internet. Evidence of such an evolution is visible from various industry measurements, such as the proportion of Google users accessing their sites via IPv6 and vyncke.