[121899] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Mon Feb 1 02:40:09 2010
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:39:20 -0800
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <88ac5c711001280447m453dd39aqf99e9f3246be9d65@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Richard Barnes wrote:
> 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).
What do you meaning starting, that happened years ago.
15 million ip subscribers, 6 million voice subscribers, 30 million cable
tv subscribers...
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote:
>>> 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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