IPv6 was created to increase the number of available devices directly connected to the internet from 4 billion to too many to count by increasing the address space from 32bits to 128bits. In some ways, IPv6 was made for countries that will need to bring millions of users to the internet in the coming years. Today, finding IPv4 space is difficult and expensive...
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It has been seven years since the World IPv6 Day (Aug. 6, 2011), which was the first large-scale test of IPv6 for 24 hours on major internet web sites, and it has been six years since the World IPv6 Launch Day on June 6, 2012, which got many sites to definitively offer their services over IPv6. With the Internet Society, LinkedIn is celebrating the anniversary...
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Co-authors: Erin Atkinson and Bhaskar Bhowmik A few months ago, LinkedIn surpassed the 50% IPv6 traffic milestone. In this post, we will look into the methodology we adopted to measure performance as we enabled IPv6 on our content delivery networks (CDNs), and share some key results of our performance analysis. We hope this information will help readers who are...
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Earlier this month, and for the first time in our company’s history, more than 50% of pages on LinkedIn were accessed over IPv6 from...
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Coauthor: Tim Crofts The LinkedIn site has been available to the public over IPv6 since 2014, and our employees have been able to...
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Coauthor: Tim Crofts In Part I of this series, we explained why we decided to move our internal network over to IPv6. The LinkedIn...
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