According to Qrator Labs, a company specializing in ensuring the availability of Internet resources and countering DDoS attacks, Russia has worsened its position in the ranking of countries with the most stable segments of the national Internet, dropping from 11th to 13th place. Experts attribute this to the continuing expansion of the market of Internet operators and the slow transition to the new IPv6 protocol, which allows using more IP addresses.
The rating of the stability of the national segments of the Internet has been calculated since 2016 among 249 countries of the world. According to the rating, Russia took the 13th place this year, the year before the Russian Federation took the 11th place.
Experts believe that the use of a more advanced version of IPv6 by network operators along with the IPv4 Protocol can increase the stability of Internet segments. Then in case of problems with one Protocol, the other will work.
According to Google, just over 30% of users in the world use the new Protocol, while in Russia this figure is slightly more than 5%.
The problem is that Russia does not have a universal program for switching to IPv6. "It is difficult to force current market participants to switch to a new Protocol, because they will have to upgrade equipment and hardware and software systems, and this is a serious expense," said Andrey Vorobyov, director of the Coordination Center for .ru / .РФ domains.
The global five countries are led by Brazil, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Next in the ranking are the Netherlands, Canada, the United States, France and Liechtenstein. Four newcomers, Liechtenstein, Japan, Indonesia and Argentina, entered the top 20 this year, while Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Ireland and Bulgaria left. Hong Kong dropped eight positions in a year.
