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Deployment of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...
), the latest generation of the
Internet Protocol The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet. IP h ...
, has been in progress since the mid-2000s. IPv6 was designed as a replacement for
IPv4 Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) is the fourth version of the Internet Protocol (IP). It is one of the core protocols of standards-based internetworking methods in the Internet and other packet-switched networks. IPv4 was the first version de ...
. IPv4 has been in use since 1982, and is in the final stages of exhausting its unallocated address space, but still carries most Internet traffic. Google's statistics show IPv6 availability of its users at around 37–41% depending on the day of the week (greater on weekends). Adoption is uneven across countries and Internet service providers. Many countries have 0% use while a few have over 50% use, such as India and Germany. In November 2016, 1,491 (98.2%) of the 1,519
top-level domain A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in ...
s (TLDs) in the Internet supported IPv6 to access their domain name servers, and 1,485 (97.8%) zones contained IPv6
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, and approximately 9.0 million domains (4.6%) had IPv6 address records in their zones. Of all networks in the global BGP routing table, 29.2% had IPv6 protocol support. By 2011, all major operating systems in use on personal computers and server systems had production-quality IPv6 implementations. Cellular telephone systems present a large deployment field for Internet Protocol devices as mobile telephone service continues to make the transition from 3G to 4G technologies, in which voice is provisioned as a
voice over IP Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), also called IP telephony, is a method and group of technologies for the delivery of speech, voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet. The terms In ...
(VoIP) service. In 2009, the US cellular operator
Verizon Verizon Communications Inc., commonly known as Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The company is headquartered at 1095 Avenue of the Americas in ...
released technical specifications for devices to operate on its 4G networks. The specification mandates IPv6 operation according to the ''3GPP Release 8 Specifications (March 2009)'', and deprecates IPv4 as an optional capability.


Deployment tools and evaluation


Rapid deployment tools

Tools such as
6rd 6rd is a mechanism to facilitate IPv6 rapid deployment across IPv4 infrastructures of Internet service providers (ISPs). It is derived from 6to4, a preexisting mechanism to transfer IPv6 packets over the IPv4 network, with the significant chan ...
, conceived by
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, have been developed to enable IPv6 rapid deployment.


Statistics and monitoring

Google publishes statistics on IPv6 adoption among Google users. A graph of IPv6 adoption since 2008 and a map of IPv6 deployment by country are available. Akamai publishes by-country and by-network statistics on IPv6 adoption for traffic it sees on its global Content Distribution Network (CDN). This set of data also shows graphs for each country and network over time. A global view into the history of the growing IPv6 routing tables can be obtained with the SixXS Ghost Route Hunter. This tool provided a list of all allocated IPv6 prefixes until 2014 and marks with colors the ones that were actually being announced into the Internet BGP tables. When a prefix was announced, it means that the
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at least can receive IPv6 packets for their prefix. The integration of IPv6 on existing network infrastructure may be monitored from other sources, for example: *
Regional Internet registries A regional Internet registry (RIR) is an organization that manages the allocation and registration of Internet number resources within a region of the world. Internet number resources include IP addresses and autonomous system (AS) numbers. ...
(RIR) IPv6 prefix allocation *IPv6 transit services *Japan ISP IPv6 services


Testing, evaluation, and certification

A few organizations are involved with international IPv6 test and evaluation, ranging from the United States Department of Defense to the University of New Hampshire. *The US DoD
Joint Interoperability Test Command The Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) is a wing of the United States Department of Defense that tests and certifies information technology products for military use. History The JITC had its roots in the TRI-TAC program of the 1970s, wh ...
DoD IPv6 Product Certification The United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense (DoD) Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) product certification program began as a mandate from the DoD's Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks & Information Integration (ASD-NII) ...
Program *
University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory The University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) is an independent test facility that provides interoperability and standards conformance testing for networking, telecommunications, data storage, and consumer technology produ ...
involvement in the IPv6 Ready Logo Program * SATSIX


Major milestones


Operating system support

By 2011, all major operating systems in use on personal computers and server systems had production-quality IPv6 implementations.
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has supported IPv6 since
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, and in production-ready state beginning with
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.
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and later have improved IPv6 support.
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since Panther (10.3),
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2.6,
FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free and open-source Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), which was based on Research Unix. The first version of FreeBSD was released in 1993. In 2005, FreeBSD was the most popular ...
, and
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also have mature production implementations. Some implementations of the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file transfer protocol make use of IPv6 to avoid NAT issues common for IPv4 private networks.


Government encouragement

In the early 2000s, governments increasingly required support for IPv6 in new equipment. The
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, for example, specified in 2005 that the network backbones of all federal agencies had to be upgraded to IPv6 by June 30, 2008; this was completed before the deadline. In addition, the US government in 2010 required federal agencies to provide native dual-stacked IPv4/IPv6 access to external/public services by 2012, and internal clients were to utilize IPv6 by 2014. Progress on the US government's external facing IPv6 services is tracked by NIST. The government of the
People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
implemented a five-year plan for deployment of IPv6 called the ''
China Next Generation Internet The China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) () project is an ongoing plan for the accelerated rollout and application of the IPv6 protocol nationwide. An author from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) summarized ...
'' (see below).


Coexistence with IPv4

On 7 March 2013, the
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created a working group for IPv4 sunset in preparation for protocol changes that could be used to support sunset/shutdown of remanent IPv4 networks. However, in May 2018 this working group was closed as no immediate work could be identified due to the slow transition to IPv6. The Internet Engineering Task Force expects IPv6 to coexist with IPv4 as it is considered impractical to transition to IPv6 in the short term. The coexistence is expected to be based on dual-stack, tunneling or translation mechanisms. Dual-stack implementations required two parallel logical networks, increasing cost and complexity of the network. IPv4 networks are expected to slowly transition into segmented
subnetwork A subnetwork or subnet is a logical subdivision of an IP network. Updated by RFC 6918. The practice of dividing a network into two or more networks is called subnetting. Computers that belong to the same subnet are addressed with an identical ...
s using IPv4 Residual Deployment. The slow transition to IPv6 has caused significant resentment in the Internet community. As a result, many larger enterprises, such as Microsoft, are transitioning to phasing out IPv4 and moving towards IPv6 Single-Stack within the company. In a recent blog, the company describes their heavily translated IPv4 network as "potentially fragile", "operationally challenging", and with regard to dual-stack operations (i.e. those running IPv4 and IPv6 simultaneously) "complex".


Deployment by country and region


Algeria

AnwarNet (www.anwarnet.dz); AfriNIC has allocated range of IPv6 address space to AnwarNet. AnwarNet started IPV6 services in 2011.


Australia

*
AARNet AARNet (Australian Academic and Research Network) provides Internet services to the Australian education and research communities and their research partners. AARNet built the Internet in Australia. In 1995, the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Com ...
completed network ''AARNet 3'', a high-speed network connecting academic and research customers in the major metropolitan centres, with international links to major ISPs in the US, Asia, and Europe. One of the design goals was to support both IPv4 and IPv6 protocols equally. It also supports
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routing and jumbo frames. *IPv6 Now Pty Ltd introduced the first commercial-grade IPv6 tunnel broker service in Australia on April 30, 2008. Also, in June 2008, IPv6Now introduced the first dual-stacked (IPv4 & IPv6) web hosting service. * Internode is the first commercial ISP in Australia to have full IPv6 connectivity and make IPv6 available to customers. The availability to customers was officially announced to
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on July 18, 2008. *The Victorian State government granted A$350,000 to establish an IPv6 testbed network (VIC6) freely available to industry to evaluate their IPv6 products and strategies. *
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announced on 5 September 2011 that their backbone network was fully double-stacked and that they had commenced providing its enterprise, government and wholesale customers with IPv6 connectivity, and helping customers through the transition; they would activate IPv6 addressing for its mobile network on 12 September 2016. * Aussie Broadband started enabling IPv6 for all new residential NBN customers' services on 1 November 2021.


Bangladesh

*
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successfully tested and started commercial IPv6 beta deployment to end user for the first time in Bangladesh on May 22, 2017.
SpeedLinks
successfully tested and started commercial IPv6 deployment to end user for the first time in Rangpur Division, Bangladesh on January 25, 2022.


Belgium

*On July 13, 2010,
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Netherlands (operating within the
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in cooperation with
Mobistar Orange Belgium (known as Orange) is a Belgian telecommunications company. It competes with Proximus and Base. It was incorporated by France Télécom in 1996 under the name of Mobistar. The company re-branded as Orange on 9 May 2016 (following ...
Belgium) successfully tested native
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...
over
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/
GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Insti ...
in Belgium and the Netherlands within a vehicle platform as an Intelligent transportation system solution. The test was performed both in
gsm The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...
and in
tethering Tethering, or phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection with other connected computers. Connection of a mobile device with other devices can be done over wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), over Bluetooth or by physical conne ...
mode using a
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. *Since September 2013, research and government ISP
Belnet Belnet (the Belgian National research and education network) is a Belgian internet provider for educational institutions, research centres, scientific institutes and government services. Since 1993, BELNET provides web services to higher educati ...
offers native IPV6 to all customers. *VOO A large residential ISP (cable) started its transition in April 2013 leading to impressive growth in IPv6 in Belgium *
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started its transition in February 2014, helping to push the Belgian average of IPv6 usage to almost 30% by September 2014 and putting them in the top 10 of worldwide ISPs of which customers are visiting websites with IPv6. *According to
APNIC APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry ( RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region. It is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). APNIC provides numbe ...
, IPv6 penetration is 52% as of January 2019; penetration briefly peaked around 70% in August 2017.


Brazil

As of April 2021, Brazil has 38.4% IPv6 adoption. IPv6 adoption in the country was boosted in 2015 when the Brazilian telecommunications agency, Anatel, announced that all Internet operators and service providers would be required to provide IPv6 addresses to consumers. This was one of a number of initiatives to increase the speed of deployment.


Bulgaria

Has constructed a research center to study the possibilities of adopting IPv6 in the country. The center will operate alongside another facility, which is equipped with an IBM
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supercomputer. Since 2015, the ISP Blizoo enabled IPv6 for many home customers. At the end of 2016, the ISP ComNet Bulgaria Holding Ltd. has provided complete IPv6 support for all customers and households within company network in Bulgaria.


Canada

IPv6 deployment is slow but ongoing, with major Canadian ISPs (notably
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) lacking in support for its residential customers, and the majority of their business customers (including server packages). According to Google's statistics, Canada reached an IPv6 adoption rate of 39.66% as of May 2022. *
Rogers Communications Rogers Communications Inc. is a Telecommunications in Canada, Canadian communications and media company operating primarily in the fields of mobile phone operator, wireless communications, cable television, telephony and Internet access, Intern ...
has deployed native IPv6 network wide, including their DOCSIS 3.0/3.1 wireline broadband network and their HSPA/LTE mobile network. In 2018, it appeared that all Wireless LTE devices in the network had only IPv6 addresses and no IPv4 gateway, IP address and DNS servers. *
Shaw Communications Shaw Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company which provides telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shaw provides home telecommunications services primarily in Alberta and Br ...
has IPv6 including DOCSIS 3.1 for residential customers using the latest XB6 cable modems since 2018. *Fibrenoire, a Canadian Metro Ethernet fibre network operating in Quebec and Ontario, has been providing native IPv6 connectivity since 2009. *
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(formerly Cogeco Peer 1) has provided IPv6 backbones to Canadian data centres since 2011, as well as in its
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centers. * TekSavvy has deployed its own IPv6 network to its customers on DSL in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, and Quebec as well as for cable customers serviced by Rogers Communications. *
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has deployed IPv6 to customers on their Helix platform. *
SaskTel Saskatchewan Telecommunications Holding Corporation, operating as SaskTel, is a Canadian crown-owned telecommunications firm based in the province of Saskatchewan. Owned by the provincial government, it provides wireline and wireless communicati ...
has deployed IPv6 support for business customers subscribing to their Dedicated Internet or LANSpan IP product. *
Telus Telus Communications Inc. (TCI) is the wholly owned principal subsidiary of Telus Corporation, a Canadian national telecommunications company that provides a wide range of telecommunications products and services including internet access, voi ...
has deployed IPv6 support for business services and residential customers with 61.23% IPv6 usage in August 2021 according to World IPv6 Launch measurements. *Origen Telecom is a Canadian
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operating in Montreal and Toronto, and supports IPv6 connectivity for its business clients. *Belair Technologies Operating in Montreal, Laval and surrounding area as well as Cornwall and Toronto, and fully supports IPv6 connectivity for all its clients. *TelKel, an ISP that offers FTTH only, in Montreal, Quebec and suburbs, supports native dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 since the beginning. *
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provides IPv6 to customers. * Beanfield Metroconnect provides IPv6 for business customers. * EBOX provides IPv6 to its customers since 2013 on fiber and DSL/FTTN last-mile technologies. * GemsTelecom has provided IPv6 to its customers since 2009 on fiber and DSL/FTTN last-mile technologies.


China

The
China Next Generation Internet The China Next Generation Internet (CNGI) () project is an ongoing plan for the accelerated rollout and application of the IPv6 protocol nationwide. An author from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) summarized ...
(CNGI, 中国下一代互联网) project is an ongoing plan initiated by the Chinese government with the purpose of gaining a significant position in the development of the Internet through the early adoption of IPv6. China showcased CNGI's IPv6 infrastructure during the
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, being the first time a major world event has had a presence on the IPv6 Internet. At the time of the event, it was believed that the Olympics provided the largest showcase of IPv6 technology since the inception of IPv6. The deployment of IPv6 was widespread in all related applications, from
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and camera transmissions for sporting events, to civil applications, such as
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s and
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s. The events were
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live over the Internet and networked cars were able to monitor
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conditions readily, all network operations of the Games being conducted using IPv6. Also, the
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(China Education and Research NETwork, 中国教育和科研计算机网, 教育网) set up native IPv6 (CERNET2), and since then many academic institutions in China joined CERNET2 for IPv6 connectivity. CERNET-2 is probably the widest deployment of IPv6 in China. It is managed and operated jointly by 25 universities. Students in
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and
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, for example, get native IPv6. In 2017, China issued an "''Action Plan for Promoting Large-scale Deployment of Internet Protocol Version 6''" where it encouraged a nationwide adoption of the IPv6 network. Outlined in the plan, China had set goals to develop a next-generation internet technical system and industrial ecosystem with independent
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in 5 to 10 years, and aimed at having the largest IPv6 network in the world by the end of 2025. In 2018, US researchers from the
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categorized China as being part of a group of 169 countries that had little IPv6 traffic. As of 2021, Akamai's latest State of the Internet Report asserts an IPv6 adoption rate of 23.5% among Chinese internet connections. In July 2021, China announced plans to complete a national IPv6 rollout by 2030. It is the only country known to advocate towards a single-stack network and had earlier in May 2021, overtaken India in becoming the Number 1 country in terms of having the most IPv6 addresses in the world, with 528 million.


Czech Republic

As of September 2019, the country has a deployment ratio around 22.91%, according to both Google and APNIC stats. *
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have deployed IPv6 on residential xDSL lines since 2012. It uses dual-stack PPPoE with CGN for IPv4. Only prefix size is available via DHCP-PD. *
T-Mobile Czech Republic T-Mobile Czech Republic, a.s. is a Czech wireless network operator, owned by the German telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile is the largest mobile phone network operator in the Czech Republic. As of 31 December 2014, six millio ...
have deployed IPv6 on residential xDSL lines since 2014. It uses dual-stack PPPoE with one public static IPv4 address and IPv6 prefix delegated via DHCP-PD. * UPC Czech Republic have deployed IPv6 on residential DOCSIS lines since 2017. IPv6-only network with IPv4 over DS-Lite is used. Customers are forced to terminate the connection in carrier-provided CPE with limited customization options. *IPv6 is generally available in data centers and web hosting companies.


Denmark

As of April 2022, the country has only 7.22% IPv6 traffic, according to Google stats.
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) follows national IPv6 deployment. The ISP Fullrate has begun offering IPv6 to its customers, on the condition that their router (provided by the ISP itself) is compatible. If the router is of a different version, the customer has to request a new router. Several other small ISP have already begun implementing the protocol as well as 3, the smallest mobile provider.


Estonia

Estonian Telekom is providing native IPv6 access on residential and business broadband connections since September 2014. According to Google's statistics, Estonia has reached an IPv6 adoption rate of 28% by July 2020.


Finland

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(Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority), the NIC for the .fi top level domain, has added IPv6 address to DNS servers, and allows entering IPv6 address when registering domains. The registration service domain.fi for new domains is also available over IPv6. A small Finnish ISP
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has offered IPv6 access since 2007. FICORA held national IPv6 day on June 9, 2015. At that time
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and
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started providing IPv6 on mobile subscriptions, and
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(via 6rd) and DNA Oyj (native) started providing IPv6 on fixed-line connections. According to Google's statistics, Finland has reached an IPv6 adoption rate of 40% .


France

* AFNIC, the NIC for (among others) the
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Top Level Domain, has implemented IPv6 operations. * Renater, the French national academical network, is offering IPv6 connectivity including multicast support to their members. * Free, a major French ISP, rolled-out IPv6 as an opt-in at end of year 2007. In 2020, it removed the possibility to opt-out, effectively reaching 99% coverage. Free also activated IPv6 on its mobile network just after Christmas 2020. * Nerim, a small ISP, provides native IPv6 for all its clients since March 2003. *
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(formerly France Telecom), a major ISP, is currently rolling out IPv6 on its wired network. ETA Q2 2016 for FTTH and VDSL, 2017 for ADSL. *
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has implemented IPv6. * FDN, a small associative ISP, has been providing native IPv6 since November 2008. *
SFR SFR (; ''Société française du radiotéléphone'', ) is a French telecommunications company. As of December 2015, it had 21.9 million customers in Metropolitan France for mobile services, and provided 6.35 million households with high-spee ...
, a major ISP, rolled out IPv6 as an opt-in on its wired network. *
Bouygues Telecom Bouygues Telecom () is a French mobile phone, Internet service provider and IPTV company, part of the Bouygues group. It is the third oldest mobile network operator in France, after Orange and SFR, and before Free Mobile. Its headquarters, de ...
plans deployment for 2017. *all mobile operators in France support IPv6 (December 2020) As of April 2022, France has 66.73% IPv6 traffic according to Google, and 46% according to APNIC.


Germany

According to Google's statistics, Germany has reached an IPv6 adoption rate of 61% by April 2022. * DFN backbone network offers full native IPv6 support for their participants. Many scientific networks in Germany, like the Munich Scientific Network (MWN) operated by
Leibniz-Rechenzentrum The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) (german: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum) is a supercomputing centre on the Campus Garching near Munich, operated by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Among other IT services, it provides supercomputer ...
, are connected to this network. *
Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (; short form often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a German telecommunications company that is headquartered in Bonn and is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. Deutsche Telekom was ...
started rolling out IPv6 for new All-IP DSL customers in September 2012. Telekom started to roll out IPv6 (dual stack) in their mobile network in August 2015. In January 2020 Deutsche Telekom announced a new APN for IPv6-only. The overall deployment rate for both mobile and fixed network was 76% as of 31 December 2020. *
Vodafone Kabel Deutschland Vodafone Kabel Deutschland GmbH is the largest cable television operator in Germany. Kabel Deutschland was subject to a hostile takeover bid by the British Vodafone Group in September 2013; the deal was approved in December 2013 and finalised on ...
and
Unitymedia Vodafone GmbH is a mobile telecommunications operator in Germany headquartered in Düsseldorf. It provides mobile phone, LTE, 5G, cable internet, landlines, cable TV, and IPTV services. As of the third quarter of 2021, Vodafone GmbH has more ...
offer native IPv6 to their new customers. The adoption rate was 63% for both Vodafone Kabel and Unitymedia as of 31 December 2018. *, a regional carrier and ISP, offers native IPv6 for their customers. Adoption rate was 72% as of 31 December 2020. *Regional carrier and ISP
NetCologne NetCologne is a regional telecommunications, cable television and Internet service provider in the Cologne region of Germany. It operates its own copper, coaxial, FTTB and CDMA2000 networks. It serves 518.000 customers and is owned by the city ...
has begun offering native IPv6 to its customers. Deployment rate was 68% as of 31 December 2018. *
Primacom Primacom is a private cable network operator in Germany, with around 1 million connected households and approximately 800 thousand customers. Primacom provides services to clients primarily in Eastern Germany (Berlin, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg ...
(now part of PŸUR) offers IPv6 for their customers. * (former
Tele Columbus Tele Columbus is a large cable provider in Germany with 3.6 million connected households on network level 4. The company was formed in November 2006 following the merger of Tele Columbus GmbH and ewt multimedia GmbH. In 2015, Tele Columbus acqui ...
) offers IPv6 connectivity since end of 2014. * Deutsche Glasfaser offers ipv6 via DHCPv6 or 6rd. IPv4 connectivity is provided via CGN to its customers. * O2 has introduced IPv6 for new DSL customers in 2018. *Vodafone started with IPv6 in its mobile network end of 2019. *O2 Germany started to roll out IPv6 in its mobile network, first only for new contracts, later step by step for all customers till end of June 2021


Hong Kong


Hungary

In Hungary Externet was the first ISP starting deploying IPv6 on its network in 2008 August. The service was commercially available since 2009 May.
Magyar Telekom Magyar Telekom Nyrt. (officially ''Magyar Telekom Távközlési Nyilvánosan Működő Részvénytársaság, Magyar Telekom Telecommunications Public Limited Company'' ) is the leading Hungarian telecommunications service provider company. I ...
was running tests on its production environments since the beginning of 2009. Free customer trials started on November 2, 2009, for those on ADSL or Fiber Optic. Customers are given a via DHCP-ND unless they register their DUID in which case they receive a /56 using a static configuration results in a single . According to information on telecompaper.com, UPC Hungary will start deploying IPv6 in mid-2013, finishing it in 2013. The plan has not materialized until the end of 2015. In 2015, December
RCS&RDS Digi Communications, also known as RCS & RDS, is a Romanian telecommunication holding company operating in Romania, Hungary, Spain and Italy. Digi was founded by Zoltán Teszári, who is the majority owner, and it is listed on the Bucharest Sto ...
(Digi) has enabled native dual-stack IPv6 (customers receive dynamic /64 prefixes) for its
FTTB Fiber to the ''x'' (FTTX; also spelled "fibre") or fiber in the loop is a generic term for any broadband network architecture using optical fiber to provide all or part of the local loop used for last mile telecommunications. As fiber optic ...
/ H customers. In November the same year
UPC Hungary Vodafone Hungary is the third largest mobile operator in Hungary. It started operations in 1999 after securing the third GSM 900/1800 MHz licence of the country and it was the first provider operating in the DCS-1800 band in Hungary. Vodafo ...
introduced
DS Lite The is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. It is the second iteration of the Nintendo DS and is slimmer, brighter, and more lightweight than the original. It was announced on January 26, 2006, more than a ...
(with private IPv4 addresses) which can be enabled on a customer-to-customer basis if the customer asks for it. Magyar Telekom deployed
dual-stack Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv ...
IPv6 (using dynamic /56 prefixes on
DSL Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines. In telecommunications marketing, the term DSL is widely understood to mean asymmetric dig ...
and
GPON G.984, commonly known as GPON (gigabit-capable passive optical network), is a standard for passive optical networks (PON) published by the ITU-T. It is commonly used to implement the outermost link to the customer (last kilometre or last mile) o ...
and static prefixes on
DOCSIS Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification (DOCSIS) is an international telecommunications standard that permits the addition of high-bandwidth data transfer to an existing cable television (CATV) system. It is used by many cable televisio ...
) for all of its wired (and for all of its compatible mobile) customers in October 2016. According to the statistics of
APNIC APNIC (the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet address registry ( RIR) for the Asia-Pacific region. It is one of the world's five RIRs and is part of the Number Resource Organization (NRO). APNIC provides numbe ...
, IPv6 use in Hungary as of 2018 December has reached around 20%. According to
Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...
's IPv6 statistics the adoption rate in Hungary as of April 2022 is 42%.


India

According to Google's statistics, India has reached an IPv6 adoption rate of around 63.1% in April 2022. As of 2018, APNIC placed India at more than 70% preferring IPv6. *Department of Telecommunications, of the government of India has run workshops on IPv6 on 13 February 2015 at Silvassa & on 11 February 2015, at DoT headquarters, New Delhi. They have also released roadmaps on IPv6 deployment. *Sify Technologies Limited, a private Internet service provider, rolled out IPv6 in 2005. Sify has a
dual-stack Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv ...
network that supports commercial services on IPv6 transport for its enterprise customers. Sify is a sponsored member of 6Choice, a project by India-Europe cooperation to promote IPv6 adoption. Sify.com is the first to launch a dual-stack commercial portal. * ERNET The Indian Education and Research Network, Department of Electronics & IT of the government of India is providing dual-stack networks from 2006 onwards and has been part of many EU funded initiative such as 6Choice, 6lowpan, Myfire, GEANT etc. ERNET's own websites and those hosted of other organisations are all running on dual stack. ERNET provides Consultancy and Turnkey project Implementation to organisations migrating to IPv6 along with fulfilling their Training needs. ERNET has an IPv6 central facility aimed at system and network administrators to provide hands-on training in the use and configuration of web, mail, proxy, DNS and other such servers on IPv6 spearheaded by Praveen Misra, an IPv6 evangelist. *Reliance JIO has deployed and is offering IPv6 services in India since September 2016, and has migrated 200M of their Internet users on their IPv6 only mobile network by the end of 2017. As of May 2022, Reliance had an IPv6 adoption rate of over 92%.


Ireland


eir
dual-stack, VDSL2, FTTH, & 3GPP Mobile
Virgin Media
DS-Lite, DOCSIS
Growth of IPv6
in Ireland as seen by Google.


Italy

* Fastweb announced in 2015 the initial availability of IPv6 addresses for its residential customers. * TIM, the largest Italian ISP, has offered since 2017 a basic pilot service in order to allow its customers to connect using IPv6. However, at the beginning of 2022 several users began to report the removal of the PPPoE profile used to provide IPv6, it seems that TIM has completely abandoned IPv6 in its network.
Sky Wifi
provides IPv6 service. SkyWiFi started using dual stack, but will switch to an IPv6-only network using MAP-T for IPv4 connectivity
Dimensione
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with IPv4 in Dual Stack.
Pianeta Fibra
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with IPv4 Dual Stack.
Navigabene
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with IPv4 Dual Stack.
Iliad
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with MAP-E for IPv4 connectivity.
Aruba.it Fibra
provides IPv6 by assigning a via IPv6 over PPPoE with IPv4 Dual Stack.
Spadhausen
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with IPv4 in Dual Stack.
Convergenze
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with IPv4 in Dual Stack.
Ehiweb
provides IPv6 by assigning a via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation with IPv4 in Dual Stack. According to Google's statistics, Italy had an IPv6 adoption rate of 5.29% by January 2022.


Japan

*Telecommunications company NTT announced itself as the world's first ISP to offer public availability of IPv6 services in March 2000. * NTT's NGN allows for native IPv6 over Ethernet connection to various ISPs. Some ISPs provide the option to use IPv6 transition mechanisms such as
DS-Lite An IPv6 transition mechanism is a technology that facilitates the IPv6 deployment, transitioning of the Internet from the IPv4, Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) infrastructure in use since 1983 to the successor addressing and routing system of ...
or MAP-E as an alternative to IPv4 PPPoE. By March 2021, 80% of NTT NGN users had IPv6 internet access through an ISP operating on the NGN. * NTT Docomo, the largest cell phone operator in Japan, started providing IPv6 dual-stack service to devices sold since Summer 2017. In June 2021, they announced that they would be transitioning to a
NAT64 NAT64 is an IPv6 transition mechanism that facilitates communication between IPv6 and IPv4 hosts by using a form of network address translation (NAT). The NAT64 gateway is a translator between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, for which function it need ...
/
DNS64 An IPv6 transition mechanism is a technology that facilitates the transitioning of the Internet from the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) infrastructure in use since 1983 to the successor addressing and routing system of Internet Protocol Vers ...
-based single-stack IPv6 network starting in Spring 2022. According to Google's statistics, Japan had an IPv6 adoption rate of 43.79% by April 2022.


Lebanon

*Telecommunications company
Ogero Ogero (or OGERO), which stands for "Organisme de Gestion et d'Exploitation de l'ex Radio Orient" (in French) is the fixed infrastructure operator in Lebanon, delivering voice and broadband internet and data services to residential and Enterprise ...
enabled IPv6 support for DSL users and for private operators since July 2018


Lithuania

The
LITNET LITNET is Lithuanian Research and Education Network in Lithuania. It was established in 1991 and had X.25 satellite connectivity to University of Oslo. LITNET Network Operations Center, NOC is located in Kaunas University of Technology (KTU). R ...
academic & research network has supported IPv6 since 2001. Most commercial ISPs have not publicly deployed IPv6 yet.


Luxembourg

* RESTENA, the national research and education network, has been running IPv6 for a number of years. It is connected to the European GEANT2 network. In addition, it runs one of the country Internet exchanges, which supports IPv6 peering. RESTENA also runs the .lu top level domain, which also supports IPv6. *P&T Luxembourg, main telecom and Internet service providers, has announced they have production quality IPv6 connectivity since January 2009, with the first professional customers being connected as of September 2009. Deployment of IPv6 to residential customers is expected to take place in 2010. According to Google's statistics, Luxembourg reached an IPv6 adoption rate of 36% by July 2020.


Netherlands

*
SURFnet SURF is an organization that develops, implements and maintains the national research and education network (NREN) of the Netherlands, It operates the national research network formally called SURFnet. SURF as a network is a backbone computer netw ...
, maintainer of the Dutch academical network SURFnet, introduced IPv6 to its network 1997, in the beginning using IPv6-to-IPv4 tunnels. Its backbone is entirely running dual-stack, supporting both native IPv4 and IPv6 to most of its users. * XS4All was a major Dutch ISP. In 2002 XS4All was the first Dutch broadband provider to introduce IPv6 to its network, but it has only been experimental. In May 2009 the provider provided the first native IPv6 DSL connections. In August 2010 native IPv6 DSL connections became available to almost all their customers. Since June 2012 native IPv6 was enabled by default for all new customers. *Business-orientated Internet provider BIT BV has been providing IPv6 to all their customers (DSL, FTTH, colocated) since 2004. *SixXS had two private Dutch founders and has been partnering with IPv6 Internet service providers in many countries to provide IPv6 connectivity via IP tunnels to users worldwide since 2000. It started out as IPng.nl with a predominantly Dutch user base and reorganized as SixXS to be able to reach users internationally and be diversified in ISP support. SixXS also provided various other related services and software which contributed significantly to IPv6 adoption and operation globally. They ceased their operation on 6-6-2017. *Business ISP Introweb provides an IPv6-only 8 Mbit/s ADSL connection for 6 euro per month to 100 customers as a pilot, both for companies to learn how to adapt to IPv6 as for themselves in working on a fully IPv6 enabled network. *Signet is the first ISP in the country which provides IPv6 connectivity together with IPv4 on multiple national fiber networks (Eurofiber, Glasvezel Eindhoven, BRE, Glasnet Veghel, Ziggo, and Fiber Port). *Most Dutch hosting companies, including the biggest one, Leaseweb, support IPv6, but customers by default get only IPv4 address. *Several government sites (such as Rijksoverheid.nl) are available via IPv6. *On July 13, 2010, native
IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communication protocol, communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic ...
over
UMTS The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) is a third generation mobile cellular system for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed and maintained by the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project), UMTS is a component of the Inte ...
/
GPRS General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a packet oriented mobile data standard on the 2G and 3G cellular communication network's global system for mobile communications (GSM). GPRS was established by European Telecommunications Standards Insti ...
was successfully tested in Belgium and The Netherlands within a vehicle platform as an Intelligent transportation system solution. The test was performed both in
GSM The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to describe the protocols for second-generation ( 2G) digital cellular networks used by mobile devices such ...
and in
tethering Tethering, or phone-as-modem (PAM) is the sharing of a mobile device's Internet connection with other connected computers. Connection of a mobile device with other devices can be done over wireless LAN (Wi-Fi), over Bluetooth or by physical conne ...
mode using a
Nokia Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational corporation, multinational telecommunications industry, telecommunications, technology company, information technology, and consumer electronics corporatio ...
smart-phone A smartphone is a portable computer device that combines mobile telephone and computing functions into one unit. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, which ...
. This test was performed by
Logica Logica plc was a multinational IT and management consultancy company headquartered in London and later Reading, United Kingdom. Founded in 1969, the company had offices in London and in a number of major cities across England, Wales and Scotl ...
Netherlands within the
SPITS project ''Spits'' (; en, Peak/Rush Hour; stylized as ''Sp!ts'') was a tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format newspaper freely distributed in trains, trams and buses in the Netherlands from 1999 to 2014. Its competitor was ''Metro (Dutch newspaper), M ...
, in cooperation with
Mobistar Orange Belgium (known as Orange) is a Belgian telecommunications company. It competes with Proximus and Base. It was incorporated by France Télécom in 1996 under the name of Mobistar. The company re-branded as Orange on 9 May 2016 (following ...
Belgium. *In 2018
KPN KPN (in full Koninklijke KPN N.V., also Royal KPN N.V.) is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company. KPN originated from a government-run postal, telegraph and telephone service and is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. History Un ...
started issuing address blocks to their business clients for a one-time fee. *
T-Mobile Netherlands T-Mobile Netherlands BV is the largest mobile phone company in the Netherlands. It was owned by Deutsche Telekom before being sold to WP/AP Telecom Holdings IV B.V., a joint venture between Warburg Pincus and Apax Partners. It still licences the T ...
doesn't have plans to deploy IPv6 yet.


New Zealand

In 2012, surveys conducted by the New Zealand IPv6 Task Force indicated that awareness of IPv6 had reached a near-universal level among New Zealand's large public- and private-sector organizations, with adoption mostly occurring as part of normal network refresh cycles. Most of New Zealand's ISP and carrier community have a test environment for IPv6 and many have started bringing IPv6 products and services on-stream. An increasing number of New Zealand government websites are available over IPv6, including those of the
Ministry of Defence (New Zealand) The Ministry of Defence ( mi, Manatū Kaupapa Waonga) is the public service department of New Zealand responsible for advising the government on strategic defence policy, acquiring military equipment to meet defence capability and conducting au ...
,
Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand) , logo = MPINZ-logo.svg , logo_width = , logo_caption = , picture = , picture_width = , picture_caption = , formed = , preceding1 = Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry , preced ...
and the
Department of Internal Affairs The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), or in te reo Māori, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with issuing passports; administering applications for citizenship and lottery grants; enforcing censorship and gambling law ...
. *
Massey University Massey University ( mi, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa) is a university based in Palmerston North, New Zealand, with significant campuses in Albany and Wellington. Massey University has approximately 30,883 students, 13,796 of whom are extramural or ...
has enabled IPv6 on its border and core campus routers. Its central network services, including DNS, external email and NTP are also enabled. Massey's main website is IPv6-enabled and remote login to some servers and network equipment also supports IPv6 for systems administration and networking staff. *IPv6 has been enabled on 15 websites hosted at
Tauranga City Council Tauranga City Council is the local government authority for Tauranga City in New Zealand. It is a territorial authority elected to represent the 158,000 people of Tauranga. The last Mayor of Tauranga was Tenby Powell, who resigned in November 2 ...
(TCC). Changes to equipment on the council's internal LAN have also been made to enable IPV6. Some internal networks across the organization have been enabled for IPv6, and dual-stack technology is being used to enable both IPv4 and IPv6 use. A number of internal servers and client devices communicate via IPv6, and a teredo relay and 6to4 relay ensure users using these two transition technologies are well served when accessing IPV6 addresses. *The
University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...
IT Services team has partially deployed IPv6, in collaboration with the Science Faculty and the Computer Science Department. It has IPv6 connectivity via
KAREN Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic l ...
and its commercial ISP. Computer Science is fully dual-stacked; IPv6 has been used in undergraduate laboratory assignments and for post-graduate projects. *
KAREN Karen may refer to: * Karen (name), a given name and surname * Karen (slang), a term and meme for a demanding woman displaying certain behaviors People * Karen people, an ethnic group in Myanmar and Thailand ** Karen languages or Karenic l ...
, New Zealand's R&E network, is an IPv6 native network and has provided IPv6 as a standard service offering to its members since 2006. *Auckland-based ISP WorldxChange Communications has had dual-stack since 2008. It has started providing residential customers with dual (IPv4 and IPv6) service using DHCPv6, on a trial basis. *Government Technology Services, a business group of the
Department of Internal Affairs The Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), or in te reo Māori, is the public service department of New Zealand charged with issuing passports; administering applications for citizenship and lottery grants; enforcing censorship and gambling law ...
(DIA), has an IPv6 website as a proof of concept to demonstrate how New Zealand government websites can be made accessible to the IPv6 Internet. *South Island-based Internet Service Provider Snap Internet provides native IPv6 connectivity for all its customers. Its network is fully IPv6-enabled, with the IPv6 service running alongside Snap's normal IPv4 connectivity. *Palmerston North-based ISP Inspire Net has had native IPv6 transit since late 2009. *Internet Service Provider DTS's transit, managed and hosting services are fully IPv6 capable. *Trans-Tasman service provider
Vocus Communications Vocus Group Limited, formerly known as Vocus Communications, is an international telecommunications company headquartered in North Sydney, Australia. Founded by James Spenceley as a wholesale, business, government and consumer telecommunicati ...
offers full dual-stack IP transit services and also supports IPv6 transport on its private IP WAN service in NZ.


Philippines

The government is in process of upgrading its facilities.
Globe Telecom Globe Telecom, Inc., commonly shortened as Globe, is a major provider of telecommunications services in the Philippines. The company operates the largest mobile network in the Philippines and one of the largest fixed-line and broadband networks ...
has already set in motion the transition of its core IP network to IPv6, noting that it is now fully prepared even as the Internet runs out of IPv4 addresses. Globe claims it is the first local telecommunication company to test IPv6 with
Department of Science and Technology (Philippines) The Department of Science and Technology (abbreviated as DOST; fil, Kagawaran ng Agham at Teknolohiya), is the executive department of the Philippine government responsible for the coordination of science and technology-related projects in the ...
. In some cases, like test networks or users, IPv6 or both may be present Since then, Globe Telecom has successfully deployed IPv6 in 2020 on its 5G network.
University of the Philippines Diliman , image = University of The Philippines seal.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = Official Logo of UP Diliman , motto = Honor and Excellence , established = February 12, 194 ...
is part of the World IPv6 Launch and deployed IPv6 on its network since 2011.
PLDT PLDT, Inc., formerly known as the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company ( fil, Kompanya ng Teleponong Pangmalayuan ng Pilipinas), is a Philippine telecommunications, internet and digital service holdings company. It is one of the country's ...
takes lead in IPv6 deployment in the Philippines and provides IPv6 to its customers since 2020.
Dito Telecommunity Dito Telecommunity Corporation (stylized as DITO), formerly known as Mindanao Islamic Telephone Company, Inc. or Mislatel is a telecommunications company in the Philippines which is also engaged in the business of multimedia and information te ...
provides IPv6 to its customers since its start of operation.
Sky Cable Sky Cable (stylized as SKYcable) is a cable television service of Sky Cable Corporation in the Philippines. It covers areas across the country with both digital and analog cable services, and it has 700,000 subscribers, controlling 45% of ...
on its Sky Fiber broadband service provides IPv6 to its customers since 2019.


Poland

*The Polish national research and education network began an IPv6 trial period in 2002. As for now native IPv6 connectivity is available to numerous educational and private clients connected via citywide networks operated by local universities. * Polish Internet Exchange, a commercial and carrier-neutral Internet traffic exchange point, has facilitated IPv6 peering between numerous operators since 2008. *
Orange Polska Orange Polska (formerly Telekomunikacja Polska) is a Polish telecommunications provider established in December 1991. It is a public company traded on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, with a controlling stake owned by Orange S.A., the latter controlli ...
In March 2013, the mobile operator launched mobile access to the Internet via IPv6 protocol for their subscribers. In September 2013, Sony Xperia Z1 became the first IPv6-compliant device commercially available in Orange Poland.


Romania

*As of June 2012, the ISP named
RCS&RDS Digi Communications, also known as RCS & RDS, is a Romanian telecommunication holding company operating in Romania, Hungary, Spain and Italy. Digi was founded by Zoltán Teszári, who is the majority owner, and it is listed on the Bucharest Sto ...
offers dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 PPPoE services to current home users using modern versions of Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other IPv6-ready devices. More than 1 million RCS & RDS residential customers can now use native IPv6 on a dual-stack PPPoE connection and 16% already do.


Russian Federation

*
ER-Telecom ER-Telecom is a Russian telecommunication holding company. It was the first federal telecommunication company, whose evaluation impulse has been received out of the region. The company is specialised on rendering a wide range of services for indiv ...
offers native IPv6 to customers since 10.10.2013 using PPPoE Dual-Stack and DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation * MTS provides native IPv6 for mobile customers since April 2017


Serbia


Supernova
network has started IPv6 beta test, since December 2021.


Sri Lanka

*
LEARN Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of learn ...
network had deployed IPv6, since 2008. *
Dialog Axiata Dialog Axiata PLC ( si, ඩයලොග් ආසිආටා පීඑල්සී, Ḍayalog Āsiāṭā PīElSī, ta, டயலொக் ஆசியாடா பிஎல்சி) (formerly known as MTN Networks and later Dialog Telekom), i ...
provides native IPv6 to customers by default, since 2018. * SLT provides native IPv6 to Fixed LTE customers, since 2018. * Mobitel provides native IPv6, since 2020.


Sudan

The Sudanese IPv6 task Force SDv6TF was formed in 2010 to fellow the implementation of IPv6 migration plan (2011–2015). By November 2012, all telecom operators are becoming IPv6 enabled, this was tested for the first time at the AFRINIC-17 meeting held in Khartoum. SudREN (Sudanese Research and Education Network) is the first ISP to provide native IPv6 connectivity of the member institution. By August 2014, SudREN.edu.sd is fully IPv6 Enabled. Two certification received from IPv6 Forum, for WWW and ISP Enabled Logos.


Sweden

*
Bahnhof Bahnhof (German for "railway station") is a Swedish Internet service provider (ISP) founded in 1994 by Oscar Swartz in Uppsala, Sweden, and is the country's first independent ISP. Today the company is represented in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Upp ...
offers IPv6 to businesses. *
Tele2 Tele2 AB is a Swedish telecommunications operator headquartered in the Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major telephone operator in Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Tele2 also has a 25% share in T-Mobile Netherland ...
have begun IPv6 rollout to mobile customers (both consumers and businesses). *Tre rolled out IPv6 in 2018. *
Com Hem Com Hem was a Swedish brand owned by Tele2 AB which supplied Triple Play services that included cable television, broadband internet and fixed-line telephone. Founded in 1983 as Televerket Kabel-TV as part of the former state-owned Televerke ...
offers IPv6 to businesses and to consumers in some locations. Operators offering native IPv6 access for business clients and collocation customers include
Tele2 Tele2 AB is a Swedish telecommunications operator headquartered in the Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major telephone operator in Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Tele2 also has a 25% share in T-Mobile Netherland ...
and Phonera.


Switzerland

*Th
Data Center Light
is the first commercial IPv6 only data center in Switzerland *
Swisscom Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland. Its headquarters are located in Ittigen near Bern. The Swiss government owns 51.0 percent of Swisscom AG. According to its own published data, Swisscom holds a market share of 56 ...
offers IPv6 over 6rd to private customers. *Init7 offers native IPv6 on all their offerings. *iway offers native IPv6 on customer lines. *
Sunrise Sunrise (or sunup) is the moment when the upper rim of the Sun appears on the horizon in the morning. The term can also refer to the entire process of the solar disk crossing the horizon and its accompanying atmospheric effects. Terminology Al ...
provides IPv6 for some of the products, private customers can enable 6rd. *
UPC Switzerland UPC was the largest cable operator in Switzerland with around 1.1 million residential and business customers and was formed in 1994 through the merger of several cable operators. UPC has been a subsidiary of Liberty Global since 2005. On 27 Fe ...
offers native IPv6 with DS-lite to new customers.


Tunisia

Started deploying IPv6 in 2010. In 2011
ATI
(Tunisian Internet Agency) obtained a new IPv6 block from AFRINIC (2c0f:fab0::/28). In 2013–2015, Gnet (Global Net), and CIMSP (Computing Departement of Health Ministry) received IPv6 prefixes from AFRINIC. Deployment of an IPv6 tunnel between ATI and HE (Hurricane Electric). In 2016, CCK (Centre de Calcul El Khawarizmi) obtains its own IPv6 (/32) block from
AFRINIC AFRINIC (African Network Information Centre) is the regional Internet registry (RIR) for Africa. Its headquarters are in Ebene, Mauritius. Before AFRINIC was formed, IP addresses (IPv6 and IPv4) for Africa were distributed by the Asia-Pacific Ne ...
. In 2016, ISET Charguia (Higher Institute of Technologies in Tunisia) deployed its IPv6 network as end user.


Ukraine

Some IPv6 implementation has taken place.


United Kingdom

*
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, the UK's education and research network, introduced IPv6 unicast support into its service level agreement in 2008. Several major UK universities and colleges (e.g.,
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and
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) upgraded their campus routing infrastructure to provide IPv6 unicast support to their users. * Andrews & Arnold launched a native (non-tunneled) IPv6 service in October 2005 and offer IPv6 by default. *The UK government started to replace much of its
Government Secure Intranet Government Secure Intranet (GSi) was a United Kingdom government wide area network, whose main purpose was to enable connected organisations to communicate electronically and securely at low protective marking levels. It was known for the '.gsi. ...
(a
wide area network A wide area network (WAN) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area. Wide area networks are often established with leased telecommunication circuits. Businesses, as well as schools and government entities, us ...
) with a new
Public Services Network The Public Services Network (PSN) is a UK government's high-performance network, which helps public sector organisations work together, reduce duplication and share resources. It unified the provision of network infrastructure across the United ...
(PSN) in late 2009. The aspiration was to deploy using IPv6 and support IPv4. The implementation is based on IPv4 but suppliers must be capable of supporting IPv6. *
BT Group BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered in London, England. It has operations in around 180 countries and is the largest provider of fixed-line, broa ...
announced in August 2016 that most of its customers can expect IPv6 connectivity in early 2017. *
Zen Internet Zen Internet is an Internet service provider (ISP) based in Rochdale, England. History Zen was founded in 1995 by Richard Tang (then Managing Director, now Chairman) after a drink in the pub, Zen Internet was one of the first ISPs in the United ...
enabled IPv6 for all customers in December 2015, after a successful trial earlier that year. * Spitfire Network Services offer native dual-stack IPv6 on broadband and Ethernet services. *
Sky Broadband Sky Broadband is a broadband service offered by Sky UK in the United Kingdom. With the introduction of Sky Fibre, Sky Broadband now refers to ADSL broadband products. History In October 2005, Sky UK agreed to purchase the ISP EasyNet for ...
enabled IPv6 for a majority of their customers in the first half of 2016. *
EE Limited EE is a British national mobile network operator and internet service provider, which is a brand within the BT Group. EE is the second-largest mobile network operator in the United Kingdom, with 26.1 million subscribers as of September 2 ...
enabled IPv6 on the
Radio access network A radio access network (RAN) is part of a mobile telecommunication system. It implements a radio access technology. Conceptually, it resides between a device such as a mobile phone, a computer, or any remotely controlled machine and provides co ...
for most consumers by Autumn 2018. Their home broadband services currently do not support IPv6 however. * Aquiss enabled IPv6 for their broadband customers in 2015. In February 2020 they completed their IPv6 rollout for services and systems i.e. web hosting platform, VOIP and other services. According to Google's statistics, United Kingdom has reached an IPv6 adoption rate of 43.55% as of April 2022.


United States

In the United States the majority of smartphones use IPv6, but only a small percent of computers and tablets use IPv6. , 46.2% of Google users in the US use IPv6.


Further countries

As of January 2021 *
Malaysia Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
50.06% IPv6 adoption *
Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making i ...
44.6% IPv6 adoption *
Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
37.89% IPv6 adoption *
Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...
37.12% IPv6 adoption


Events


World IPv6 Day

The Internet Society The Internet Society (ISOC) is an American nonprofit advocacy organization founded in 1992 with local chapters around the world. Its mission is "to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people ...
promoted June 8, 2011, as "World IPv6 Day". The event was described as a "test drive" for full IPv6 rollouts.


World IPv6 Launch

The Internet Society declared June 6, 2012, to be the date for "World IPv6 Launch", with participating major websites enabling IPv6 permanently, participating ISPs offering IPv6 connectivity, and participating router manufacturers offering devices enabled for IPv6 by default.


See also

* IPv6 brokenness and DNS whitelisting


References


External links


World IPV6 Launch Measurements
- updated regularly

- updated regularly * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ipv6 Deployment IPv6 Technological change