Google went above 20% of their access being native IPv6 for the first time on July 22.
The protocol is becoming more and more relevant by the day.
Of course this doesn’t show what % of the native access is from tunnel brokers like HE, which would mostly comprise users/organizations that are trying to adopt it.
One interesting thing you can glean from the above screenshot is that IPv6 adoption is more prevalent in the residential market than in the corporate/enterprise market.
I deduce this from the fact that the minimums are much higher just prior to January each year. I.e. many people are off from work for Christmas holidays the last two weeks of the year, thus they’re reaching Google from their IPv6-enabled home networks and not from their V4-only offices.
That doesn’t surprise me. Most companies will have IPv4 only on their LAN and will likely use NAT to go out.
ISPs that introduced IPv6 already (like mine) and that provide routers to their customers, will have given IPv6 without their customers knowing about it.
That will normally not work in a company environment.
At work, we have only IPv4 on the LAN as well, but we use proxy servers to go out, and on the proxy servers there is IPv6 on the internet.
So e.g. when visiting whatismyip.com I do see an IPv6 address while my PC itself has only IPv4.
I hope (like you) that MikroTik will take IPv6 a little more seriously. We are getting a second internet connection, but it will not be possible to use it
as long as there is no route marking support in RouterOS.
I noticed another thing while looking at that data. The fact that it goes through periodic cycles is interesting, and I noticed that the peaks are weekends and the troughs are weekdays.
This is further evidence of the fact that the enterprise sector is the slow adopter.
