IPv6 may briefly have accounted for more than half of internet traffic

Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory?

It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to Google statistics, briefly accounted for 50.1% of the…

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IPv6 may briefly have accounted for more than half of internet traffic

Has IPv6 finally reached its day of glory?

It’s fair to say that IPv6 has not had the level of take-up expected when the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ratified it back in 1998. Take-up has been agonizingly slow, not reaching 5 percent of traffic until 2014. However, the use of IPv6 has been slowly climbing since, and according to Google statistics, briefly accounted for 50.1% of the…

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How Internet Works | Connecting the Dots

The internet isn't a single thing, it's a series of handshakes, lookups, and translations that happen in milliseconds. Let's trace a single request from your keyboard to a database halfway across the world.

Most of us take it for granted: you type a URL, hit enter, and a fraction of a second later, a world of information appears. But between that keystroke and the rendered page lies a complex,…

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