World IPv6 Day has come and gone. June 8th witnessed the largest number of web sites ever to be available on the IPv6 protocol. The consensus is that the event was a success, as no major issues were reported by participants, at least publicly. To summarize World IPv6 Day:
- 400+ official participants, ~20% left their AAAA records in place after the event
- Millions of unique IPv6 connections hitting IPv6 properties for the day, such as Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and Facebook
- "Broken" clients anticipated to have issues continued to decline – ~0.02%
A10 participated as a content provider and was one of the first Application Networking vendors to sign up early. A10 also had a more critical role as a provider of IPv6 equipment to a broad range of customers. For a long time, A10 has provided the AX Series appliances for Service Providers to enable IPv6 transition solutions (DS-Lite, NAT64 and more), but the focus for World IPv6 Day was squarely on providing the front end to many web sites.
A10 customers who used the AX to front end IPv6 services represented a broad cross section of the Internet community, for example: a large US web portal, a major US news organization, a number of Web 2.0 and Cloud companies, DNS providers, and other content and business web sites. Observations A10 witnessed from the event:
- A10 customers utilized a variety of pure IPv6 load balancing and SLB-PT (Server Load Balancing with Protocol Translation). In other words, both IPv6 > IPv6 and IPv6 > IPv4.
- One large customer exclusively using A10's AX Series reported well over a million unique IPv6 addresses hitting its infrastructure's front-end IPv6 VIP.
- A flawless execution — no customer support calls were generated to the A10 support line on World IPv6 Day related to the AX and IPv6 load balancing.
IPv6 week next year? Nothing has been written in stone, but it was clear that awareness and implementation of IPv6 took a great stride forward. On the World IPv6 Day Congress panel A10 participated on in London on June 14th with Google, Yahoo, Limelight and Cisco there was general consensus, it worked and not much happened. Why? Preparation and testing.
If you have not enabled IPv6 yet, let us know and we can help. A10 is offering a unique opportunity to see your existing IPv4 website on IPv6 via http://www.a10networks.com/ipv6/ just by signing up!
On a final note, thank you to all our customers who participated in World IPv6 Day with A10, and thanks to our development, field SE and support teams for all their help with the global event.
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