It’s always exciting to see a new operator start turning up IPv6 connectivity for their customers. Recently eyes have been turning to TELMEX, a Mexican telecommunications company headquartered in Mexico City that provides telecommunications products and services in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and other countries in Latin America. As you can see from the chart below, their IPv6 deployment has been growing rapidly of late.
TELMEX IPv6 Deployment
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We are delighted to announce that APNIC are now supporting World IPv6 Launch as a new data source. APNIC recruits random measurements of IPv6 capability and preference through advertisements placed in web sites worldwide. The advert runs specially crafted HTML5/Javascript and measures a range of properties across wired, wireless and cellular networks. Per-Economy and Per-ASN daily totals are calculated through the RIR delegation stats and daily BGP dumps to map origin-as and economy of registration of each tested clients IP addresses. The measurement has run continuously since 2010 and currently collects around 10 million samples per day. Further information is available here.
If you’re a network operator deploying IPv6 and would like to join TELMEX and the other networks that make up the ranks of World IPv6 Launch participants, please register your network for measurement.
Ireland will soon be firmly established amongst the many countries around the world seeing strong and growing IPv6 deployment. One of the main reasons for that growth has been renewed IPv6 deployment by eircom and we are delighted that they have registered to join the ranks of World IPv6 Launch network operators.
Eircom Limited, trading as eir, is a fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland, and a former state-owned monopolist. It is the largest telecommunications operator in the Republic of Ireland, with a division to service the business and corporate telecom markets in Northern Ireland and Britain. Eircom’s deployment has started growing again recently and they are currently ranked 96th by our methodology with an IPv6 deployment percentage of 2.61%.
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If you’re a network operator deploying IPv6 and would like to join Jio and the other networks that make up the ranks of World IPv6 Launch participants, please register your network for measurement.
IPv6 deployment watchers have been aware of strong growth in India (15.5% according to Akamai, 17.77% according to Google) for some time. One of the main reasons for that growth has been deployment on the mobile network of Jio (Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd.) and we are delighted that they have registered to join the ranks of World IPv6 Launch network operators.
Jio is an LTE mobile network operator in India. Jio’s deployment has been growing over the past year or so, and they are currently ranked fourth by our methodology with an IPv6 deployment percentage of 77.23%.
You can view the full listing of IPv6 network operator measurements for this month.
If you’re a network operator deploying IPv6 and would like to join Jio and the other networks that make up the ranks of World IPv6 Launch participants, please register your network for measurement.
As 2016 draws to a close, we have just uploaded our final installment of IPv6 network operator measurements for the year. We’ve seen substantial IPv6 deployment all across the globe in 2016, a trend that looks set to continue strongly in 2017 and we plan to continue providing measurements as the rollout continues.
If you’re a network operator deploying IPv6 and would like to join the other networks that make up the ranks of World IPv6 Launch participants, please register your network for measurement.
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Some highlights to drew to your attention this month include:
In Africa, Liquid Telecom are ramping up their IPv6 deployment in Zimbabwe and Zambia and currently show in excess of 11% deployment.
EE, a major mobile network operator in the UK and a subsidiary of BT, are a new entrant and it will be interesting to watch their deployment grow in the coming months.
Finally, it’s worth noting that the typically relatively slow-growing percentage of Alexa Top 1000 websites currently reachable over IPv6 has seen much more rapid growth recently as a major CDN provider makes IPv6 available by default.
If you’re a network operator deploying IPv6 and would like to join EE, Liquid Telecom and the other networks that make up the ranks of World IPv6 Launch participants, please register your network for measurement.
