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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ successor, SixXS, gaining more than 18 years of valuable IPv6 experience.
As of March 2017, there are 38’393 7-day active users spanning 140 countries. These users configured
a total of 44’673 tunnels spanning 118 countries, and 12’632 subnet delegations (28.28%). Our peak
7DA usage was over 50’000 users. Full statistics, including distributions by country, can be found
on the SixXS website [[link](https://www.sixxs.net/misc/usage/)].
on the SixXS website [[link](https://www.sixxs.net/misc/usage/)].
#### Growth
@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Another way to visualize this data is to measure the cumulative requested subnet
size). The requests for subnets naturally follows the growth of users. In recent years (2014
onwards), requests for additional subnets were clearly tapering off - this is in line with our goal
of SixXS. Therefore, in December of 2015, new user signups were suspended. Note: this explains the
flatline of requests in the years 2016 and 2017.
flatline of requests in the years 2016 and 2017.
![Cumulative Requests/Year](/assets/sixxs-sunset/image3.png)
*Image: Cumulative requests over time*.
@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ between 2012 and 2017. Second graph is average traffic in bits/sec between 2017-
Looking at the total footprint of SixXS - In March 2017, 46 PoPs spread over 29 countries were
offered by 40 unique Internet service providers. Over the lifetime of SixXS, a total of 65 different
PoPs have been active.
PoPs have been active.
![image](/assets/sixxs-sunset/image6.png)
@ -118,12 +118,12 @@ tunnel brokering service when all the end users can get [Native
IPv6](https://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=native) directly from their own Internet
provider*.
For a decade, the industry was divided into content providers and access providers engaged a chicken and egg game:
For a decade, the industry was divided into content providers and access providers engaged a chicken and egg game:
1. Content providers claimed that investing in IPv6 rollout would be useless because there were not
sufficient numbers of large ISPs which offered it.
1. Access providers claimed that investing in IPv6 would be useless because there were not
sufficient numbers of large content providers which offered it.
sufficient numbers of large content providers which offered it.
1. Both content providers and access providers claimed their customers didn’t demand it and there
was no business justification in doing so.
@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ When we started in 1999, we set ourselves some pretty ambitious goals. They are
website as value propositions to [ISPs](https://www.sixxs.net/faq/sixxs/?faq=isp), to
[endusers](https://www.sixxs.net/faq/sixxs/?faq=enduser) and we explain in detail [what
targets](https://www.sixxs.net/faq/sixxs/?faq=why) we want our project to achieve in order to help
the technical community.
the technical community.
To the latter point ([why do this](https://www.sixxs.net/faq/sixxs/?faq=why)?), we have by far
exceeded our targets of creating 10 regional PoPs (we created 65, each using their own IPv6 address
@ -237,7 +237,7 @@ to take this opportunity to call out these formative folks:
And lastly, we extend our gratitude to the men and women who professionally operate the network,
those who arranged the physical or virtual hardware, and those who are in a position to commit to
running all 65 [SixXS PoPs](https://www.sixxs.net/pops/)!
running all 65 [SixXS PoPs](https://www.sixxs.net/pops/)!
## FAQ