210 IT professionals has announced strong support for the deployment of IPv6. Over 90% say that IPv6 is important for the Internet, and 74% said they want their company to quickly transition to IPv6.

The wave of support for IPv6 appears in the context of IPv4 addresses are exhausted today. IPv6 to overcome this problem with the number of IP addresses provided almost limitless, but accompanied by the required hardware and software must be upgraded, due to lack of backward compatibility with IPv4.

The survey indicated that the company aims to deploy IPv6 than expected. For example, 86% of respondents as they find out the hardware and software to their existing support IPv6 or not, it is one of the first step in plans to deploy IPv6. Although only 16% reported that all software and hardware they support IPv6, but up to 46% said "most" of their platform is ready.

The survey shows that IT professionals have focused on providing website services to external users, with 82% saying they would adopt IPv6 for the company's website. Among respondents, 13% said they had completed the deployment of IPv6 on their website and 20% said they are in the process of upgrading. 39% of people said they would begin the upgrade within 24 months.

However, a surprise of the survey is that many IT professionals also indicated plans to upgrade their internal networks to support IPv6, an attempt is expected to take time and cost than IPv6 deployment on the web page to provide services to external users. 72% said it would apply IPv6 to their corporate network. Similar to the deployment site, 13% of respondents said they were willing to IPv6 for the company's intranet and 25% said they began the process of this upgrade. Furthermore, 27% said they would begin the process within 24 months.

One survey participant, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said he uses the IPv6 stable for many years.

"Most of IPv6 has been in operation," Mann said. "IPv6 is activated gradually in parallel with IPv4, and traffic moved slowly through the AAAA records are added to the DNS (domain name system). Sometimes appear some problems, but they are processed to turn.

"We understand when using IPv6 gradually, having some problems and overcome, the more use that the next issue ... The biggest problem is maintaining the development of IPv6, while capable of choices easily choose to go back to IPv4. "

Web server of the university have enabled IPv6 since 2008.

Survey shows many obstacles in the deployment of IPv6 on their intranet and external web sites. That is, the commercial service is not available from the network operators, software products and network devices lackfeatures reciprocity between IPv6 and IPv4.

"The WAN network providers and network equipment vendors are now our biggest barriers to implementing IPv6 in the backbone Dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6 protocol two concurrent operations)," a participant to look for. "Currently, our networks do not provide MPLS (or Internet) with IPv6 protocol ... network equipment vendors to our new (Juniper) do not have a full set of features (eg DHCPv6 Relay). "

Another agreed that the service provider network is lagging. "A lack of ISP support, otherwise we have applied to connect the global IPv6", you said.

The survey indicates that IT professionals to grasp the issue closely to deploy IPv6. Two thirds of respondents surveyed reported experience with IPv6, and more than half said "it is important that IPv6 is adopted as quickly as possible."

However, IT professionals have many unanswered questions about IPv6, with 64% saying they needed more training on the implementation of IPv6.

Survey of IPv6 Network World aimed at IT professionals who will participate in the process of upgrading to IPv6 for their company. Among respondents, 90% said they would be directly responsible for or influence the deployment of IPv6 to their company.

Survey of Network World conducted several weeks after testing large IPv6 first in the world. Over 400 website businesses, government agencies and universities to support IPv6 within 24 hours in the IPv6 World Day, which is designed to identify technical barriers to the deployment of IPv6. The trial was going well.