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2021: Russia climbed 3 places in the Internet sustainability rating - Qrator Labs

Over the year, Russia climbed three places in the ranking of countries with the most stable segments of the national Internet. This is stated in the corresponding study, which is annually produced by Qrator Labs (specializing in network security). The data were released on September 8, 2021.

According to Kommersant, citing this report, in 2021 Russia was located in the 10th position of the rating against the 13th a year earlier. At the same time, the maximum percentage of possible network failure in the Russian Federation increased from 5.08% to 5.15%. This means that a larger number of networks in the Russian Federation will lose accessibility if the national telecom operator fails, explained the head of Qrator Labs Alexander Lyamin.

The Russian Federation rose by 3 places in the ranking of the stability of the Internet

In the ranking, analysts choose the top 20 leaders from 197 countries. Account is taken of operators whose failure can lead to the loss of global availability of the largest percentage of autonomous systems of the national segment. The stability indicators of networks running on the IPv4 protocol (Internet Protocol version 4; created in 1981) and the new IPv6. The rating on IPv4 in 2021, as in 2020, is headed by Brazil, Germany and Switzerland, the United States switched from eighth to 17th place.

In Brazil, the share of networks losing global availability when one operator fails was 1.25%. In the IPv6 ranking, Russia took only 17th place against 13th place a year earlier.

IPv6 connectivity indicators in 2021 are generally more stable than Ipv4. Experts noted the take-off of Ukraine in the ranking from 12th to 6th place and the appearance of China in it in 7th place, which was ahead of countries such as Switzerland, France and Japan. This demonstrates the effectiveness of the PRC's national strategy to upgrade the IP protocol version in the country's networks, however, a high percentage of partial accessibility (90%) shows that work is still underway, researchers say.^[1]

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