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17 November 2009 – Bill Trussell,  Managing Director of Security and Networking Research and Advisory – Folks have not gotten the message yet that the networking world is going to come to an end in 2012.  It used to be 2010, but the date keeps getting pushed out over the course of the years. The movable date is the one that corresponds to the rough approximation of the time when all the address space available under the current Internet Protocol version 4 is used up or assigned. Credit needs to be given to those who spend a good deal of time trying to predict the demise of IPv4 addresses, prompting the need for Version 6 of the Internet Protocol, or IPv6.  We do an update on this subject when we get new data on where the enterprise community is going with IPv6 adoption. In our Wave 6 Networking Study, we found that there was not much movement on adoption . Networking Wave 6 interviewees collectively provided the following results:

• Adoption of IPv6 amounts to only 7% of the overall enterprise population interviewed, up from 5% six months earlier.
• Citations for future adoption remain strong, at 15% of the overall population, but down from 17% six months earlier.
• Cisco dominated among in use and in plan citations for IPv6 implementations due largely to its incumbent status.

We do not expect to see much forward progress on IPv6 adoption in the round of interviews under way now, due in large part to the lack of any significant business justification.

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