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Africa Leads In IPv6 Adoption

Posted by timothy on from the rising-tide-all-boats dept.

Ian Lamont writes "The recent news that China will run out of IPv4 addresses in a few years points to slow adoption of IPv6 in some developed countries. Now it turns out that the largest number of networks displaying new IPv6 address blocks are registered through AfriNIC, which services networks in Africa and the Indian Ocean. While AfriNIC has a smaller installed base than other regions, many countries in Africa are showing rapid growth in terms of online connectivity."

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  1. Simple by SlashDev · · Score: 5, Informative

    because most African networks are being created and not migrated.

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  2. Makes sense by mangu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Considering that African nations have each a small fraction of the 16 million addresses that the GE corporation has, they need something better than NAT.

    1. Re:Makes sense by neoform · · Score: 5, Informative

      That, and the lack of existing infrastructure that needs to be changed in order to meet IPv6. There probably wasn't a huge "switch" phase involved in having IPv6 deployed, whereas the western world is on IPv4, switching to IPv6 actually takes a lot of work.

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