Blog Listing: IPv6

Background on IPv6 | With Internet growth exceeding the limited number of IPv4 addresses, many ISPs and service providers have broadly deployed IPv6. Hosts available over both IPv6 and IPv4 are known as dual stacked. Akamai recommends that sites be enabled with IPv6 wherever possible, both for performance and scale.  For some countries with extensive IPv6 deployment (including the U.S....

Akamai delivers terabits per second of IPv6 traffic on a daily basis with peak of 21 terabits per second in February 2020. IPv6 is a network layer protocol that allows the exchange of "packeted" data from device to device. Check out our latest blog post, "An Introduction to IPv6" for more background.  The default when you create a new Akamai...