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Switzerland Tops IPv6 Adoption Charts; US Lags At 4th

Posted by timothy on from the this-isn't-actually-a-race-you-realize dept.

hypnosec writes "According to recent statistics, Switzerland has topped the IPv6 adoption charts by leapfrogging Romania, which led the charts for nearly a year. According to Google, Switzerland's adoption stands at 10.11 percent — the highest for any country. Romania, on the other hand, has an adoption rate of 9.02 percent, followed by France at 5.08 percent. Switzerland took the top position near the end of May and the primary reason seems to be Swisscom and its drive to adopt the next IP version. The U.S. stands at fourth place with just 2.76 percent adoption."

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  1. Lags? by jo7hs2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd say the largest economy in the world is probably not lagging by being fourth, considering the shear amount of equipment in use, and that the three preceding countries are considerably more compact. Big ships make wide turns.

    1. Re:Lags? by JanneM · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The linked article seems more than a little odd; I just checked Japan at the same place they link to, and it has an adoption rate of 3.13%, ahead of the US. So it seems the comparison is only among a restricted set of countries (the linked page has only five countries displayed), and not really relevant to much of anything.

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  2. Romania! by zappa88 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We are in news that's not about horse meat. HELL YEAH!

  3. No kidding by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This seems to be a way to try and take a case where the US is doing decent and instead make it bad and hate on the US. So the US is 4th, out of 196 nations, some of which have very little infrastructure? Sounds like it is doing s decent job to me. Particularly since the US has a ton of infrastructure, some of it older (given that the Internet started in the US) and that the IPv4 shortage is not as acute there since the US has a lot of blocks allocated to it.

    The US doesn't have to be first in everything, it isn't a case of "anything other than first is a failure."

    IPv6 adoption is going to be a slow process. There's a lot to doing it right. In particular you find plenty of equipment either flat out doesn't support IPv6, or doesn't support it in hardware, meaning that it can't do much of it without falling over.

  4. Re:Switzerland's population by Eunuchswear · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know there are these neat things called "google" and "wikipedia".

    Switzerlands population is 8million.

    There is only one city in the US with a larger population - New York. There are only 9 cities with a population of over 1 million.

    So what is a "regular" city?

    And what is the IPv6 penetration in this city? (I.E. your argument is not just wrong but also ridiculous).

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