Half of Internet traffic will be IPv6 by 2020
As we've crossed into the second half of 2017, it's time to take stock of how the Internet continues to evolve from the pure IPv4 network from nearly a decade ago, to the increasingly mixed IPv4-IPv6 Internet of today. Over the last few years, I've posted a summary of google's IPv6 statistics measurements and extrapolated these forward a year or two based on exponential and quadratic regression curves. Google's data represents one perspective though probably a good indicator for the Internet at large. In this post, we'll take a walk down memory lane first to see how prior years' predictions have panned out. In February, 2014, I posted my first set of curve fitting projections as related in the table below along with actual measurements: End of year Exponential Quadratic Actual 2014 5.9% 4.9% 5.7% 2015 13.8% 8.2% 10.0% 2016 32.3% 12.5% 16.8% Clearly, the exp...