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Ok, several people have written in and said that i basically write little about IPV6. So here is an update about it:

• The Amsterdam Internet Exchange publishes traffic stats for IPV6 here
• Hurricane Electric seems to be a or the leading IPV6 network volume and IP wise (shameless plug for them and Mike Leber & Martin Levy at Hurricane Electric’s IPV6 page)
• Other exchanges and networks are either member locked for the IPV6 traffic or they aren’t recording it
• As a percentage of all internet traffic you can do some funky extrapolation and get some numbers…

So others offering IPV6 traffic are basically all exchanges worldwide, you can find info about internet exchanges, commonly referred to as IXP’s either on Wikipedia or by the association, Euro-IX.

So what does IPV6 get you? The good stuff! (more…)

Well folks, you probably either were affected by, or potentially noticed that there was a several day sever of the interconnections between Sprint & Cogent.  For those who didn’t know, this as usually has little or nothing to do with IPV6 but rather IPV4, the network that matters.

Sprint probably said that Cogent didn’t have enough traffic, or the ratios were skewed or some other criteria was amiss and alas (notice i got an “amiss” and an “alas” in a single sentence) Cogent didn’t qualify for settlement free peering with Sprint.  My experience is, of course that Cogent probably sends 4x what it received from Sprint and that was way beyond the traffic ratios, even if they were leniant (not sure how that word is spelled) Cogent still didn’t qualify and should cough up some dough for the difference or for an interconnect all together.

Now the problem seems solved, so we go on to a complete internet worldwide…