China's IPv6 Adoption Takes A Decent Leap Forward, Especially On Fixed Networks

Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration last week reported increased uptake of IPv6.

An August 1 announcement by the Administration reported that as of June 2025 China was home to 834 million active IPv6 users, accounting for 75.29 percent of all netizens.

However IPv6 traffic accounted for only 31.12 percent of national network traffic. 66 percent of traffic on mobile networks ran over IPv6, while 28.32 percent of traffic on fixed networks used the protocol.

The latter figure is a big improvement on last year’s 21.21 percent, suggesting China’s push for widespread IPv6 adoption is having some success.

China’s Expert Committee for Promoting Large-Scale Deployment and Application of IPv6 also tested IPv6 traffic generated by 200 widely-used mobile apps and found 72.87 percent of the traffic they generated used IPv6.

The Administration plans further IPv6 promotion to again accelerate IPv6 uptake.

Atlassian fires 150 with video nasty

Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes last week sent staff a video that announced 150 job cuts. The SaaS-y company notified those affected 15 minutes after the video arrived in employee’s inboxes.

An Atlassian spokesperson told The Register the workers made redundant worked in customer service and support roles, and the decision to let them go came after the company improved its platforms and tools in ways that reduced customer support needs.

“These improvements include reducing the time spent on support tickets with more efficient ways to route work to the right experts who can resolve issues more quickly, better identification and resolution of error codes, etc,” a spokesperson told The Register, adding “These roles are not being replaced by AI.”

However Atlassian co-founder and former co-CEO Scott Farquhar last week suggested AI will change many jobs. In a speech to Australia’s National Press Club, he urged business leaders to re-imagine business processes using AI, and called for all government services to have an API.

“Let’s create a world where every interaction with governments is assisted by digital agents,” Farquhar said.

Arista spends another $1 billion on Make in India

Networking vendor Arista last week announced a plan to spend $1 billion expanding its Indian manufacturing efforts.

The company said the investment will extend its Indian manufacturing efforts to include “high-performance data center and campus network switches and enterprise access points, with an increasing focus on sourcing critical components locally.”

The company reckons its plan “enhances India’s role as a hub for trusted and scalable networking infrastructure across cloud, AI, and security use cases.”

The Register asked Arista if the investment will see India replace manufacturing it conducts in other countries, if it will export from India, if the move is a response to US tariffs, and what percentage of production it undertakes in India.

A spokesperson said the announce we linked to above is all Arista will say about the investment in public and the company is “unable to get into the granularity/detail you are looking for with these questions.”

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Free speech activist wins seat on InternetNZ board

InternetNZ, the registrar of New Zealand’s .NZ top level domain held elections last week and saw a critic of the organization elected as a board member.

As The Register reported in March, InternetNZ experienced a sudden increase in membership after New Zealand’s Free Speech Union (FSU) criticized its policies on grounds they have the potential to curtail free speech.

The Union’s CEO Jonathan Ayling ran at the election and won a seat then resigned as CEO two days later. Film-maker and internet activist Dylan Reeve also won a seat.

The FSU hailed the result as “fantastic news” as it ensures that advocates for free speech will ensure this crucial freedom is part of every decision.”

Internet NZ chair Stephen Judd said “Jonathan and Dylan bring valuable and diverse experiences and perspectives. We look forward to their contributions as InternetNZ continues to support an open and secure Internet for everyone in Aotearoa.”

New insect nightmare from down under

Australia’s James Cook University last week announced the discovery of a previously-unknown stick insect that is the heaviest yet observed.

Acrophylla alta is around 40cm long, weighs 44 grams, and inhabits the high canopy of rainforests in the country’s north-east.

Here’s a video of the terrifying creature, with the most graphic bits at the 1:15 mark. ®

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