Timeline of IPv6 adoption
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| Year | Month and date (if available) | Entity type | Entity name | Stage | Details |
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| 2011 | January 11 | ISP | Comcast | IPv6 access support | Internet Service Provider (ISP) Comcast activates its first 25 IPv6-enabled users in the Littleton, Colorado area using Apple computers. Comcast uses a Native Dual Stack configuration that supports both IPv4 and IPv6, using DOCSIS 3.0.[1][2] |
| 2011 | May 3 | Hosting service | Linode | IPv6 hosting support | Server hosting service Linode begins offering native IPv6 support.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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| 2011 | June 8 | World IPv6 Day happens. On this day, major websites, including Google services, Facebook, Yahoo, and Bing, activate IPv6. The vast majority of devices are expected to be unaffected: they will either use IPv6 or fallback to IPv4.[3] The day is deemed successful.[4] See World IPv6 Day and World IPv6 Launch Day for more. | |||
| 2012 | June 6 | World IPv6 launch occurs. This is a permanent version of the IPv6 launch that occurred on the previous World IPv6 Day in 2011, instead of the 24-hour version used that day.[5] See World IPv6 Day and World IPv6 Launch Day for more. | |||
| 2014 | June 17 | Hosting service | DigitalOcean | IPv6 hosting support | Server hosting service DigitalOcean begins offering native IPv6 support.[6][7] |
| 2017 | January 25 | Hosting service | Amazon Web Services | IPv6 hosting support | Amazon Web Services begins offering IPv6 support for EC2 instances in virtual private clouds (VPCs) in 15 regions, and Application Load Balancers in 9 regions.[8] An initial announcement around this appears to have been made on December 1, 2016.[9] |
| 2017 | September 20 | Hosting service | Google Cloud Platform | IPv6 hosting support | Google Cloud Platform announces general availability (GA) for IPv6 global load balancing.[10] |
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Add old events from w:IPv6 deployment#Major milestones and add appropriate attribution.- ↑ Brzozowski, John (January 31, 2011). "COMCAST ACTIVATES FIRST USERS WITH IPV6 NATIVE DUAL STACK OVER DOCSIS". Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "Comcast Deploys Some Dual-Stack IPv6 Cable Modems. Comcast said this week that it has successfully seeded a tiny group of customers with a new type of dual-stack cable modem that can access IPv4 and IPv6 IP addresses without compromises.". PC Magazine. February 4, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "World IPv6 Day begins 24 hours from now. Websites, start your engines.". Google Official Blog. June 6, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Hogg, Scott (June 8, 2011). "World IPv6 Day Results: New Internet Protocol Proves It's Ready". Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "IPv6: countdown to launch". January 17, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Novet, Jordan. "DigitalOcean starts giving out IPv6 addresses in its cloud". VentureBeat.
- ↑ "Is ipv6 supported and how to get ipv6 adress assigned to my server?". DigitalOcean. September 2, 2013. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "AWS IPv6 Update – Global Support Spanning 15 Regions & Multiple AWS Services". January 25, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ "Announcing Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) support for EC2 instances in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)". Amazon Web Services. December 1, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ↑ Joshi, Prajakta (September 20, 2017). "Announcing IPv6 global load balancing GA". Retrieved November 20, 2017.
