{"id":4268,"date":"2018-05-29T12:50:19","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:50:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:50:19","slug":"ipv6-adoption-as-seen-from-an-internet-backbone-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/2018\/05\/29\/ipv6-adoption-as-seen-from-an-internet-backbone-link\/","title":{"rendered":"IPv6 adoption as seen from an Internet backbone link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last ten years (with some gaps due to network upgrades), CAIDA has <a href=http:\/\/www.caida.org\/data\/passive\/passive_dataset.xml\">captured monthly traffic samples<\/a> on  Internet backbone links in several large U.S[ cities (San Jose, Chicago, and since March this year, New York City).<br \/>\nWe publish statistics for these traces at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caida.org\/data\/passive\/trace_stats\/\">http:\/\/www.caida.org\/data\/passive\/trace_stats\/<\/a>, which illustrates the growth in IPv6 traffic, relative to IPv4. Over the 10-year period covered by our traffic captures, the increase follows a steady exponential trend (linear on a log-lin graph), increasing 10-fold every 3 years. Currently the IPv6 fraction hovers around 1%.  Were this trend to continue, the ratios would be roughly 50% each around October 2022 (for packets) September 2023 (for bytes). The byte fraction increases more slowly, reflecting a slightly smaller average IPv6 packet size compared to IPv4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ipv6_traffic_ratio.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/ipv6_traffic_ratio.png\" alt=\"IPv6 Traffic Seen on a Backbone Link\" width=\"379\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We are not making any predictions, and note that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caida.org\/publications\/papers\/2018\/inferring_carrier_grade_nat\/inferring_carrier_grade_nat.pdf\">CGN deployment is also increasing rapidly<\/a>. We are just reporting the best available data we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last ten years (with some gaps due to network upgrades), CAIDA has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.caida.org\/best_available_data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}