In terms of IPv6 traffic, that also is now beginning to grow, though it’s still currently standing at approximately 1 percent of all Internet traffic. According to Google Engineer Erik Kline, there has been a rapid growth of IPv6 at Goggle. For Google, IPv6 traffic has grown by 150 percent in the last year.
“At this rate, approximately 50 percent of users will have IPv6 in six years,” Kline said.
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