[121836] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Comcast IPv6 Trials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TJ)
Thu Jan 28 08:26:04 2010
From: "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <88ac5c711001280447m453dd39aqf99e9f3246be9d65@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:26:06 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Barnes [mailto:richard.barnes@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 07:47
> To: Kevin Oberman
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials
>
> What I've heard is that the driver is IPv4 exhaustion: Comcast is
> starting to have enough subscribers that it can't address them all out
> of 10/8 -- ~millions of subscribers, each with >1 IP address (e.g.,
> for user data / control of the cable box).
++1, reference:
http://www.apricot.net/apricot2006/slides/conf/wednesday/Alain_Durand-Archit
ecture-external.ppt
/TJ
