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The IPv4 address space is near exhaustion, yet a new report claims that traffic on the modernized IPv6 (define) protocol is slow and migration to the newer address spaces is sluggish. In a year-long study of 2,393 peering and backbone routers conducted by Arbor Networks, the majority of respondents (customer and peering interfaces) said IPv6 traffic is a small percentage of overall traffic. What gives? "What we expected to find is that the migration to IPv6 is slow," Scott Iekel-Johnson, principal software engineer at Arbor Networks, told InternetNews.com. "I don't think you'd find anyone that expected there to be a significant ramp up in IPv6 usage. What was surprising in what we found is that there is no migration." RELATED ARTICLES Juniper's Big IPv6 in China Who Needs IPv6? Government Not Driving IPv6 for Enterprise NTT's 'Killer' IPv6 App a Potential Lifesaver What's Next for IPv6 in the U.S.? For more stories on this topic: That's not to say people aren't using IPv6 and usage is not growing. Just not by as much as expected, given the size of the problem with Internet address space crowding. Arbor reported that IPv6 traffic grew to a peak of 150 mbps in the summer of 2008 from approximately 50 mbps in the fall of 2007. In comparison to IPv4 traffic though, Arbor reported that for the year that they have been looking at IPv6 traffic it only represented 0.0026 percent (or 26 one-hundredths) of IPv4 traffic... [ Read more on www.internetnews.com ]

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