Network operators deploying IPv6 should register for inclusion in our measurements.

As we’ve noted this week through our news release and then infographic, the world has changed greatly in this past year.  The percentage of users using IPv6 has doubled and in fact more than doubled for many of the networks we are now measuring.

Articles, blog posts and other media are popping up all across the Internet today as so many people join in the celebration – we’re seeing them in the #v6launch and #IPv6 hashtags on Twitter, we’re seeing them on Google+, on Facebook, in LinkedIn groups… and everywhere.

THANK YOU for all you have done over this past year to help move IPv6 forward!

Together we have made IPv6 an integral part of the global Internet and a regular aspect of mainstream network planning and deployment - and we look forward to continuing to work with all of you over the months and years ahead.

Thank you!

http://www.worldipv6launch.org/infographic/

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• Google reports the number of visitors to its sites using IPv6 has more than doubled in the past year.
• The number of networks that have deployed IPv6 continues to grow, with more than 100 worldwide reporting significant IPv6 traffic.
• Australian ISP Internode reports that 10 percent of its customers now use IPv6 to access the Internet.
• Akamai reports that it is currently delivering approximately 10 billion requests per day over IPv6, which represents a 250 percent growth rate since June of last year.
• KDDI measurement shows that the number of IPv6 users of KDDI has doubled and that IPv6 traffic has increased approximately three times from last year.

Beyond those bullet points, our IPv6 measurements page shows that some networks have significantly higher IPv6 usage already.

Throughout this week we’ll be bringing you more information about IPv6 usage one year after World IPv6 Launch.  The best way to keep track may be to follow us at one of:

• @WorldIPv6Launch on Twitter
• the World IPv6 Launch Facebook page
• the World IPv6 Launch Google+ page

We’ll be engaging in conversations across those and other channels and updating them with links to new content about IPv6.

Thursday marks the 1-year anniversary of World IPv6 Launch – what have you done in that year to support IPv6?

It’s great to see another major Internet provider like Swisscom joining the many industry leading organisations that are helping to deliver ‘the new normal’ for the Internet. For others still hesitating this is another indication that there’s really no impediment left to large-scale IPv6 deployment.

This update will be our final update for 2012, a year that has seen huge deployments of IPv6 technology all the way to the edge of broadband Internet services. We hope to continue our measurement work in 2013, so check back in the new year for news and follow us for the latest updates.

* Results are ranked by volume of traffic measured by Google. The percentages are a simple average of measurement results from multiple sources. Our measurement sources are Google, Yahoo! and Facebook and we have published results for all network operator participants for which we have at least two measurement sources and for which the simple average of those measurements is greater than 0.1%. Further detail on the measurement methodology is available here.

The global Internet has now passed an even more significant milestone with Google now reporting that the percentage of users accessing Google over native IPv6 regularly exceeds 1% and continues to rise. This number indicates the cumulative impact of widespread and growing network operator deployment and enablement of IPv6 services to their subscribers on one large content provider. Mark Townsley of Cisco has written a nice article which outlines the importance and significance of this event, noting that, “If this trend continues, [IPv6 user activity] will double again by mid next year and could break past 10% by the end of 2014.”

It is worth noting that for operators that have already widely deployed and enabled IPv6 to their subscribers and where those subscribers are largely IPv6 capable themselves, IPv6 traffic levels in excess of 50% are already observed and reported in our measurements. The state of IPv6 is clear – launched and gathering momentum rapidly!

A ‘new entrant’ in the Top 10 is OVH (AS16276) with a measured increase in IPv6 traffic of over 10% from last month.

The results are ranked by volume of traffic measured by Google. The percentages are a simple average of measurement results from multiple sources. Our measurement sources are Google, Yahoo! and Facebook and we have published results for all network operator participants for which we have at least two measurement sources and for which the simple average of those measurements is greater than 0.1%. Further detail on the measurement methodology is available here.