Google logs YouTube on to IPV6 platform

BANGALORE, INDIA: Google announced that YouTube will be supporting IPv6 for streaming videos (doesn’t mention uploads) from Monday onwards.

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With a measle 10 percent of addresses available on IPv4, Google decided to move on to IPV6.

"We're proud to make YouTube available over IPv6 and to begin streaming videos from a select number of sites worldwide to our Google over IPv6 partners. With YouTube on board, we now have a significant amount of content delivered on IPv6 and a real audience/traffic for it. This is a good day for YouTube, our users and for an open and accessible Internet," said Lorenzo Colitti, network engineer and IPv6 samurai, YouTube, on a blog post.

He further adds that IPv6 has a vastly larger address space (128-bit) and allows everyone to have an incredibly large number -- 2^64 or more -- of personalized IP addresses for all their devices (think of it as having a whole telephone exchange in your home).

Google says that it believe that IPv6 is essential to the continued health and openness of the Internet – and that by allowing all devices on a network to talk to each other directly, IPv6 will enable innovation and allow the Internet's continued growth.

Accessible only for those whose network IPv6, Google over IPv6 lets users seamless access to most Google services over IPv6 simply by going to the same websites they usually use.