Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013 167
Julie188 writes "More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too. One survey respondent, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said his organization has been making steady IPv6 progress since 2008. 'Mostly IPv6 has just worked,' he said. 'The biggest problem is maintaining forward progress with IPv6 while it is still possible to take the easy option and fall back to IPv4.'"
Wrong survey audience (Score:5, Insightful)
If it were up to the IT professionals, more businesses would already be on it.
They should have surveyed CFOs to see what percentage of businesses will budget anything for an IPv6 transition in the next 24 months.
I'm an IT professional, but I'm not currently authorized to work on a transition of our network because I have a long list of things that was deemed more important by management.
Re:Wrong survey audience (Score:5, Insightful)
Sure, IT pros are probably more likely to want IPv6. But most of the survey questions were action ones - what have you done about IPv6? When a quarter say they've already started rolling out internal IPv6, and 13% more say they're done, that says a lot. The numbers are similar for web servers with public IPv6 - 20% have started, 13% are already done. It would appear that this is a technical problem that can be explained to the bosses easily: "I'm sorry, but the Internet is full. We need to upgrade to the new Internet if we want to add more stuff. We'll still work with the old Internet, so we won't lose customers, and we're only going to need to replace ___, ___ and maybe ___."
Re:No the biggest problem is IPv4 devices (Score:5, Insightful)
What good is an enterprise system if SOHO customers can't reach their IPV6-hosted web sites?
Re:Ohh yeah, in 18 months, and please let me... (Score:4, Insightful)
that's miredo (spelling), but yeah, anyone on slashdot who doesn't have ipv6 (even if their isp is ipv4 only), is a lazy git who should turn in her or his geek card. Too easy and way too many ways to get connectivity through tunnel. Many free services out there, will give you your very own *static* /64 subnet and a tunnel, you can have a static ipv6 address for every cell in your body!