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IPv6 in China

Jul 19, 2018Tom Paseka
IPv6 in China
SummaryAI, from the source post

This post details the rapid growth of IPv6 users and traffic originating from Mainland China, specifically highlighting China Mobile's aggressive IPv6 enablement and announcement of IPv6 address blocks to the internet. It discusses the necessity of IPv6 due to IPv4 exhaustion and the challenges of Carrier Grade NAT (CGN) and NAT64. The post notes that on June 7th, China Mobile started announcing IPv6 address blocks, and Cloudflare observed a significant increase in IPv6 traffic from China Mobile users.

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