DualStack Cost Dashboard
A financial dashboard that quantifies the hidden annual cost of running IPv4 alongside IPv6, including address leases, ARP-storm incidents, and dual-stack monitoring overhead.
CIOs and infrastructure VPs justifying an IPv6 migration budget to the board
- Annualized cost breakdown of IPv4 address leases versus projected ARP-related outage minutes
- Trend lines showing dual-stack monitoring time per engineer per quarter, pulled from your ticketing system
- Side-by-side TCO model comparing staying dual-stack versus adopting the new IPv4-over-IPv6 sentinel approach
- Board-ready PDF export with charts and a one-page executive summary
IPv4 address spot prices keep rising while the standards community has just delivered a clean way to retire ARP, so finance leaders finally have the technical path to greenlight the move
IPv4 lease rates have actually stabilized around $0.40-$0.50/IP/month in 2024-2025 and large-block purchase prices dropped below $20/IP; the 'prices keep rising' narrative is overstated, weakening urgency for a dedicated cost dashboard.2025 IPv4 Price Trends and 2026 Predictions ↗
Existing IPv6 cost materials (ARIN blog series, Cisco IT case study, OneUptime migration cost guide, Network Direction articles, IR.com guides) are blogs/PDFs, not standalone SaaS dashboards quantifying dual-stack overhead.The Business Case for IPv6-Only Enterprise - ARIN ↗How to Estimate IPv6 Migration Costs - OneUptime ↗
CIO-facing IPv6 justification content is largely free (ARIN, Cisco, vendor blogs); enterprises get TCO numbers from incumbent IPAM/network vendors (Infoblox, Cisco, BlueCat) bundled with existing spend, making a standalone paid dashboard a hard sell.How Cisco IT Is Accelerating Adoption of IPv6 ↗IPv4 to IPv6 Migration: Complete Enterprise Guide for 2025 ↗
IPv6 migration is a multi-decade transition and ARP-retirement standards the idea hinges on (referenced Hacker News 'Farewell to ARPs' item) did not surface in search, suggesting the 'clean way to retire ARP' catalyst is not a near-term inflection; market will exist but not accelerate soon.Business Case for IPv6 - ARIN ↗
Quantifying ARP-storm incidents and dual-stack monitoring overhead requires customer-specific telemetry (NMS exports, logs) and validated incident-cost models that don't publicly exist; building the inputs is much harder than the dashboard UI.How to Estimate IPv6 Migration Costs - OneUptime ↗