[115187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cogent input
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Raymond Dijkxhoorn)
Thu Jun 11 11:29:29 2009
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:28:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Raymond Dijkxhoorn <raymond@prolocation.net>
To: Dave Israel <davei@otd.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A3121D8.7090202@otd.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi!
>>>>> "Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it
>>>>> becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our
>>>>> plan
>>>>> for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money
>>>>> to upgrade a network to IPv6 for no real return on investment."
>> Thats strange they are running pilots with customers on v6 in Amsterdam.
> Not really so strange. ISPs often pilot features (v6, multicast, etc)
> that they have no immediate intention of deploying, so that they have
> experience if and when it becomes profitable/sensible to deploy them.
Not from what i have been told, but hey i am not working there. We got a
v6 transit offer as pilot from them so perhaps they are moving towards
live service .... Would not be strange in this current stage...
Bye,
Raymond.
