Seventy-six percent of cable, wireless and wireline providers...
Seventy-six percent of cable, wireless and wireline providers are “planning or actively transitioning” to IPv6, according to a global survey (http://bit.ly/1flSZyX) by Incognito Software released Tuesday. Seventy-two companies replied to the survey, but only 51 were considered “acceptable candidates,” said…
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the report. Thirty-one percent of the respondents were from North America, 14 percent were from South America, 12 percent were from the Asia Pacific, and 43 percent were from Europe, Africa and the Middle East, it said. Thirty-three percent of the operators had more than 1 million subscribers, it said. Eighty-three percent of respondents said they were transitioning to IPv6 because they are “running out of IPv4 resources,” it said. Half of respondents said that customer premises equipment upgrades were a “'large’ hurdle” to IPv6 adoption, it said. Thirty-four percent of respondents in the process of adopting IPv6 expect to complete their transition within the year, it said.