LinkedIn now available on IPv6

September 9, 2014

LinkedIn now available on IPv6

By John Dixon in News Byte Tag completion, deployment, environment, finance, IPv6, linkedin, testing

A blog post from the LinkedIn engineering page announces that they’ve permanently enabled IPv6 on their infrastructure. I am guessing they took a phased approach, with services migrated to IPv6 gradually until completion this weekend.. (or maybe this weekend marked the end of a week-long soak-testing in the live environment).

Whatever, deploying IPv6 in LinkedIn means that IPv6 only connected parts of the universe can now use the site. Indeed, even during testing, about 3% of users to the website were on IPv6.

In a similar way to LinkedIn, I urge providers and ISPs to join the IPv6 revolution.

John Dixon

John Dixon is the Principal Consultant of thirteen-ten nanometre networks Ltd, based in Wiltshire, United Kingdom. He has a wide range of experience, (including, but not limited to) operating, designing and optimizing systems and networks for customers from global to domestic in scale. He has worked with many international brands to implement both data centres and wide-area networks across a range of industries. He is currently supporting a major SD-WAN vendor on the implementation of an environment supporting a major global fast-food chain.

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