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<h2>IPv6 deployment</h2>

<p>In December 2008, despite marking its 10th anniversary as a Standards Track protocol, IPv6 still accounted for a minuscule fraction of the used addresses and the traffic in the publicly accessible Internet which is still dominated by IPv4. A study by Google, reported in November 2008, indicated that penetration was still less than one percent of Internet traffic in any country. The leaders were Russia, France (0.65%), Ukraine (0.64%), Norway (0.49%), and the United States (0.45%). Although Asia led in terms of absolute deployment numbers, the relative penetration was smaller (e.g., China: 0.24%).</p>
<p>In October 2011, 263 of the 294 top-level domains (TLDs) in the Internet supported IPv6 to access their domain name servers, and 234 (76%) zones contained IPv6 glue records, and approximately 3.4 million domains (3%) had IPv6 address records in their zones. Of all networks in the global BGP routing table, 12% have IPv6 protocol support.</p>
<p>By 2011 all major operating systems in use on personal computers and server systems had production-quality IPv6 implementations. Microsoft Windows has supported IPv6 since Windows 2000, and in production-ready state beginning with Windows XP. Windows Vista and later have improved IPv6 support. Mac OS X Panther, Linux 2.6, FreeBSD, and Solaris also have mature production implementations. Some implementations of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file transfer protocol make use of IPv6 to avoid NAT issues common for IPv4 private networks.</p>
<p>Cellular telephone systems present a large deployment field for Internet Protocol devices as mobile telephone service is making the transition from 3G to "next-generation" 4G technologies, in which voice is provisioned as a Voice over Internet Protocol service. This mandates the use of IPv6 for such networks. In 2009 U.S. cellular operator Verizon released technical specifications for devices to operate on its "next-generation" networks. The specification mandates IPv6 operation according to the 3GPP Release 8 Specifications (March 2009), and deprecates IPv4 as an optional capability.</p>
<p>In the early 2000s, governments increasingly required support for IPv6 in new equipment. The U.S. government, for example, specified in 2005 that the network backbones of all federal agencies had to be upgraded to IPv6 by June 30, 2008; this was completed before the deadline. The government of People's Republic of China implemented a five-year plan for deployment of IPv6 called the China Next Generation Internet.</p>
<p>Major providers of Internet services, both ISPs and content providers, also began to implement IPv6 access into their products.</p>
<p>A global view into the growing IPv6 routing tables can be obtained with the SixXS Ghost Route Hunter. This tool provides a list of all allocated IPv6 prefixes and marks with colors the ones that are actually being announced into the Internet BGP tables. When a prefix is announced, it means that the ISP at least can receive IPv6 packets for their prefix.</p>
<p>A few organizations are involved with international IPv6 test and evaluation, ranging from the United States Department of Defense to the University of New Hampshire.</p>
<p>At this time, <strong>IPv6 deployment</strong> is slow but ongoing, with major western Canadian ISPs lacking in support for its residential customers, and the majority of their business customers (including server packages).</p>
<p>The China Next Generation Internet project is a five-year plan initiated by the Chinese government with the purpose of gaining a significant position in the development of the Internet through the early adoption of IPv6. China showcased CNGI's IPv6 infrastructure during the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, being the 1st time a major world event has had a presence on the IPv6 Internet (at http://ipv6.beijing2008.cn/en). At the time of the event, it was believed that the Olympics provided the largest showcase of IPv6 technology since the inception of IPv6. The deployment of IPv6 was widespread in all related applications, from data networking and camera transmissions for sporting events, to civil applications, such as security cameras and taxis. The events were streamed live over the Internet and networked cars were able to monitor traffic conditions readily, all network operations of the Games being conducted using IPv6.</p>
<p>Also, the CERNET set up native IPv6 (CERNET2), and since then many academic institutions in China joined CERNET2 for IPv6 connectivity. CERNET-2 is probably the widest deployment of IPv6 in China. It is managed and operated jointly by 25 universities. Students in Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, for example, get native IPv6.</p>
<p>In Hungary Externet was the 1st ISP starting deploying IPv6 on its network in 2008 August. The service was commercially available since 2009 May.</p>
<p>According to information on telecompaper.com, UPC Hungary will start deploying IPv6 in mid-2013, finishing it in 2013.</p>
<p>So far no other Hungarian ISP offers IPv6 connectivity.</p>
<p>Surveys conducted by the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force indicate that awareness of IPv6 has reached a near universal level among New Zealand’s large public and private sector organisations, with adoption mostly occurring as part of normal network refresh cycles. Most of New Zealand's ISP and carrier community have a test environment for IPv6 and many are now bringing IPv6 products and services on-stream. An increasing number of New Zealand Government websites are available over IPv6, including the Ministry of Defence, Ministry for Primary Industries, Ministry of Social Development and the Department of Internal Affairs.</p>
<p>The government is in process of upgrading its facilities. Globe Telecom has already set in motion the transition of its core IP network to IPv6, noting that it is now fully prepared even as the Internet runs out of IPv4 addresses. Globe claims it is the 1st local telecommunication company to test IPv6 with Department of Science and Technology. In some cases, like test networks or users, IPv6 or both maybe present.</p>
<p>The Internet Society declared June 6, 2012 to be the date for "World IPv6 Launch", with participating major websites enabling IPv6 permanently, participating ISPs offering IPv6 connectivity, and participating router manufacturers offering devices enabled for IPv6 by default.</p>
<p>Wikimedia has been using IPv6 since this date.</p>





<h3>Related Sites for IPv6 deployment</h3>
<ul><li>APNIC - <strong>IPv6</strong>@APNIC <a href="http://www.apnic.net/community/ipv6-program" target="_blank">read IPv6 deployment</a></li>
<li><strong>IPv6</strong> tutorial - Network World <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/2010/042810-ipv6-tutorial.html" target="_blank">read IPv6 deployment</a></li>
<li><strong>IPv6</strong> | The Number Resource Organization <a href="http://www.nro.net/ipv6" target="_blank">read IPv6 deployment</a></li>
<li>Estimating <strong>IPv6</strong> & DNSSEC <strong>Deployment</strong> Status <a href="http://usgv6-deploymon.antd.nist.gov/" target="_blank">read IPv6 deployment</a></li></ul>




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