Abstract:
The IANA central IPv4 address space has been fully depleted back in February 2011 making
the deploying of new large-scale networks especially 5G, IoT and Cloud networks not scalable and
sèecifically not what IoT really stands for. Hence the new IP protocol IPv6 has been designed to
cater for this already back in the 90s and waiting for its killer apps to take off. 4G was the first one
to adopt IPv6 in larger scale.
The IPv6 Deployment worldwide is becoming a reality now with some countries achieving
more than 50% user penetration with India, China and Belgium with over 60%at the top ranking
(http://labs.apnic.net/dists/v6dcc.html) and reaching double digits v6 coverage on Google IPv6 stats. May
Autonomous Networks (ASN) reach more than 50% with v6 preferred or v6 capable: