[121827] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Thu Jan 28 00:56:47 2010
To: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:16 PST."
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:55:51 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:59:16 -0800
> From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: William McCall
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:51 PM
> > Subject: Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials
> >
> > Saw this today too. This is a good step forward for adoption. Without
> > going too far, what was the driving factor/selling point to moving
> > towards this trial?
>
>
> SWAG: Comcast is a mobile operator. At some point NAT becomes very
> expensive for mobile devices and it makes sense to use IPv6 where you
> don't need to do NAT. Once you deploy v6 on your mobile net, it is to
> your advantage to have the stuff your mobile devices connect to also be
> v6. Do do THAT your network needs to transport v6 and once your net is
> ipv6 enabled, there is no reason not to leverage that capability to the
> rest of your network. /SWAG
>
> My gut instinct says that mobile operators will be a major player in v6
> adoption.
SWAG is wrong. Comcast is a major cable TV, telephone (VoIP), and
Internet provider, but they don't do mobile (so far).
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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