Happy 10th World IPv6 Launchiversary! Today marks the tenth anniversary of World IPv6 Launch and I’d like to take a moment to reflect on some of the progress in IPv6 deployment we’ve seen in that time.

Our measurements have tracked deployment of IPv6 at network operators around the globe based on measurement data from Akamai, APNIC, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Yahoo!. Many of our graphs detailing major IPv6 network deployments to Internet end users around the world tell the same story – up, and to the right.

IPv6 deployment has progressed sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly but fairly constantly throughout the period.

T-Mobile USA is perhaps the poster child for this phenomenon having delivered almost 100% of traffic from their subscribers to major content providers over IPv6 since 2018. We’ve also seen remarkably rapid deployments like Sky which went from less than 20% to more than 80% IPv6 deployment in the space of twelve months.

Celebrate the 10-year World IPv6 Launchiversary by watching 10 years of IPv6 deployment history unfold in the space of 5 minutes!

We will be archiving this site shortly but you should still be able to keep up with IPv6 network operator measurements over at Internet Society Pulse.

Nico Weymaere, the CTO of Belgian network operator VOO, shares his view of the IPv6 future for his company and the networking industry and how it will open up innovation.

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Cisco’s Marthin DeBeer discusses why IPv6 is critical for video collaboration and for the “Internet of Things.”

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William Brown, Associate Vice President of Product Development, D-Link Systems, Inc, shares how D-Link is working with consumers, business partners, and service providers worldwide to help them prepare for IPv6.

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Professor Pedro Veiga from the ISOC Portugal Chapter explains how IPv6 is important for the Internet in Portugal because it will prevent restrictions in the distribution of addresses. He also outlines how IPv6 is important for the “Internet of Things” and how it can help with autoconfiguration and security.

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Raúl Echeberría, CEO of LACNIC, the regional Internet registry for Latin America, outlines what LACNIC has been doing to promote deployment of IPv6 within the region, including training of over 5,000 people.

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Tom Leighton, Chief Scientist and Co-founder of Akamai explains its commitment to helping customers deploy IPv6 and ensuring the Internet remains accessible to all users.

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Adiel A.Akplogan, CEO of AFRINIC, speaks about how the availability of IPv6 can now unleash innovation and development of new applications and content that make use of the new capabilities and scale of IPv6.

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Jorge Luis Vera from ISOC Ecuador, Section Manabi explains in Spanish how IPv6 enables more efficient communications for multimedia, voice, data and telephony and how it allows more and better utilization of personal domain names due to the availability of additional IP addresses.

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Dan York explains why he is excited for World IPv6 Launch, why we need IPv6 more widely deployed to preserve the open nature of the Internet and what he has done personally to prepare for World IPv6 Launch.

Note: Dan is with the Internet Society Deploy360 Programme, producing tutorials, case studies, articles and more information to help people more rapidly deploy IPv6.

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