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In an exclusive interview, Srinivas Vegesna, Founder & CEO;, Criterion Networks talks about the IPv6 scenario in India, skillset requirements and the company's efforts in this area.
What is the state of adoption of IPv6 in India? Has there really been any deployment of applications or systems by enterprises or government organisations that are specifically running on IPv6 networks?
While infrastructure and services migration are the enabler, true adoption of IPv6 is reflected in Internet user migration from IPv4 to IPv6. While India stands relatively fine in acquisition of IPv6 address space and IPv6 prefixes in the global routing table, IPv6 user adoption in India hasn't yet shown promising uptrend.
While most service providers have upgraded their infrastructure to support IPv4 and IPv6 side-by-side and businesses can get native IPv6 leased line connectivity, IPv6 connectivity is not usually available to the homes today for broadband Internet services.
In India, IPv6 internet users make up only 0.08% of all the Internet users in India when compared to the 4% adoption rate globally. In US, IPv6 Internet users stands at 8%, and it goes as high as 20%...