IPv6 by next year but wont see mass usage in India

'IPv6 by next year, but won't see mass usage in India'

Although the adoption of IPv6 was being discussed for more than 10 years, it did not take off until recently because there were IPv4 addresses remaining and companies wanted to wait until it became a serious issue, says Truman from Juniper Networks

Friday, October 21, 2011

CIOL: So will India really move on to IPv6 withing six months?
Truman: There is going to be an interpretation of IPv6 compatible network by March. Within next year you will see an adoption of IPv6 in India.

However, I do not think that is going to have a huge effect on the content providers because majority of the consumers will still have IPv4 addresses. So will the servers and clients also, because there is no big push for them to move to IPv6.

IPv6 will be more seen in mobile industry or mobile subscriber handsets because those devices have very less variability. Whether it is an Apple IOS software, or an Android phone, almost all of its manufacturers have come down to two operating system as against the PC world, where it used to be only one, whether it is MAC or Windows.

Many consumers do not understand whether they are on IPv4 or IPv6 while they use Facebook or Google.
The uptake of IPv6 will be very small. As of now less than one per cent of the total Internet traffic runs on IPv6.

However, the growth rate in the last couple of years have been substantial.

Cost of IPv6 addresses is an interesting factor. APNIC which allots IP addresses in APAC does not allow the sale of IP addresses. Every organisation has to justify the growth of their organisation to get additional IP addresses allocated. The last of such IPv4 addresses for APAC have pretty much over.

So they are trying to create a free market system to sell IPv4 addresses. Going forward, there will be many more providers who will start looking at reducing cost and not incurring that cost by moving to IPv6.

The adoption of IPv6 though was talked about for the past 10 years, it has not taken off until recently because there were still IPv4 addresses and companies wanted to wait until it became a serious issue.

We have seen companies run out of IPv4 addresses in unplanned situations and had difficulty in getting additional IPv4 addresses. One will not want to be in that position because it is a very costly exercise to have services that is not functioning.

Asia is going to lead the way. India, China and Japan will lead the way in adopting IPv6 because they are going to run out of IP addresses first.

©CIOL Bureau

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