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World IPv6 Launch 2012In 2011 World IPv6 Day was a huge success. In 2012 World IPv6 Launch will also be a great success. Major ISPs, home networking equipment manufacturers, and web companies around the world are coming together to permanently enable IPv6 for their products and services by 6 June 2012. Find out how you can join the launch. About World IPv6 DayOn 8 June, 2011, top websites and Internet service providers around the world, including Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks joined together with more than 1000 other participating websites in World IPv6 Day for a successful global-scale trial of the new Internet Protocol, IPv6. By providing a coordinated 24-hour “test flight”, the event helped demonstrate that major websites around the world are well-positioned for the move to a global IPv6-enabled Internet, enabling its continued exponential growth.Read more... Test your IPv6 ConnectivityWant to find out your IPv6 readiness? Use this test. Other IPv6 Day EventsHeise.de held a similar event on 16 September 2010. As a result of their prior tests and experiences they now operate dual stack IPv6 and IPv4 on their website. You can read about their experiences in the following links:
On Oct 26, 2010, two of the top-5 websites in Norway, A-pressen Digitale Medier and VG Multimedia, both made their websites available over IPv6 for 24 hours. Thanks to the positive results that day, the change was made permanent shortly after.
ResultsWorld IPv6 Day was an extraordinary example of how the Internet industry can come together to promote a technology vital to its future success. The Internet Society has collected some of the many articles, presentations, and videos delivered around the world since June. Read more... The Internet Society thanks Limelight Networks for their generous support of distributed content delivery for World IPv6 Day. |
