A screenshot of World IPv6 Launch website
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Major Internet service providers, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are participating in the Internet Society‘s upcoming World IPv6 Launch where they will permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by June 6.
But where as World IPv6 Day tested public IPv6 deployments in a “real world” setting for 24 hours, participants of World IPv6 Launch will make available automatically as the normal course of business for a significant portion of their subscribers.
ISPs participating in World IPv6 Launch will enable IPv6 for enough users so that at least 1 percent of their wireline residential subscribers who visit participating websites will do so using IPv6 by June 6.
Hurricane Electric, AT&T, Comcast. Free Telecom, Internode, KDDI, Time Warner Cable, Akamai, Limelight, XS4ALL, Cisco and D-Link are just some of the companies who have already committed to participating in the event. This year will also see Facebook, Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! participate in the event for the first time.
Organized by the Internet Society, World IPv6 Launch promotes the move to IPv6 as the remaining IPv4 addresses become increasingly scarce.
According to the Internet Society, all industries mustwork to accelerate full IPv6 adoption or risk increased costs and limited functionality online for Internet users everywhere. IPv6 provides more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion addresses, compared to the four billion IP addresses that are available with IPv6.
“The fact that leading companies across several industries are making significant commitments to participate in World IPv6 Launch is yet another indication that IPv6 is no longer a lab experiment; it’s here and is an important next step in the Internet’s evolution,” said Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society’s chief Internet technology officer. “And, as there are more IPv6 services, it becomes increasingly important for companies to accelerate their own deployment plans.”
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