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We recently invited network engineers to participate in an online industry survey to characterize opinions and attitudes about IPv6 deployment in their networks. We’ve conducted this survey for five years running now, and we’ve observed a steady climb in the proportion of survey participants who have deployed or were actively deploying IPv6. This year’s survey didn’t disappoint, as we saw continued IPv6 deployment progress with over half of survey participants indicating they had deployed or were in the process of deploying IPv6. This tally represented a fifteen percent higher proportion that in last year’s survey. Deploying IPv6 is necessary for organizations to continue to communicate with all users on the “ total Internet ,” which is slowly evolving from a homogeneous IPv4 Internet to a mixed protocol IPv4-IPv6 Internet. Evidence of such an evolution is visible from various industry measurements, such as the proportion of Google users accessing their sites via IPv6 and vyncke....

The percentage of users of google's websites accessing via IPv6 has reached 8% for the first time last week, essentially doubling up the percentage from only a bit more than a year ago. It was then, a year ago that I had last blogged about predicting future IPv6 adoption trends based on "curve fitting" historical measurements. At that time, the predictions for the end of 2014 indicated 6.2% for the exponential growth model, while the polynomial model predicted 5.6%. The actual measurement was 5.7%. As illustrated in the graph below with curve fits based on the most recent data, the exponential curve, the top (green) curve is certainly the most ambitious as it was last year. It predicts the percentage of IPv6 users accessing google's sites at 11.4% by the end of this year and over 25% by the end of next. Meanwhile the polynomial curve fits are more conservative predicting 8-9% by the end of this year and 12-15% by the end of next. While IPv6 adoption growth has...

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the extension of today’s Internet beyond connectivity and interaction among traditional user-operated devices like PCs, tablets, phones and like types of devices into the realm of connectivity and interaction with non-user operated devices such as sensors, monitors and remotely controllable devices. Internet-enabling such “unmanned” devices allows these devices to autonomously report updates, status changes, events, or to perform actions commanded by users or other devices via the Internet. Examples of such “things” commonly in use today range from consumer goods to devices supporting business initiatives such as those in support of the following example applications. Smart initiatives – providing a centralized view of yet unrealized volumes of data for more intelligence resource management and customer service such as: Smart Grid – Dynamic matching of electricity, water, gas, etc. supply with demand, reducing resource waste and saving consu...