[123540] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 26, Issue 50
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph Wallace)
Wed Mar 10 16:04:33 2010
From: "Ralph Wallace" <wallacerl@verizon.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-reply-to: <mailman.5879.1268248717.817.nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:03:43 -0500
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>Message: 13
>Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:35 -0800
>From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
>Subject: Re: IPv6 enabled carriers?
>To: nanog@nanog.org
>Message-ID: <4B97F08B.2070500@rollernet.us>
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>On 3/10/10 11:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
>> Does anyone have a list of carriers who are IPv6 capable today?
>>
>> I would assume this would be rolled out in larger cities first but
>> anything outside of "testbed environments" and "trials" as in
>> Comcast's recent announcement seems to be all that is available.
>>
>> I'm being tasked with coming up with an IPv6 migration plan for a data
center.
>>
>> Mostly interested in if ATT, Level3, GLBX, Saavis, Verizon Business
>> and Qwest are capable as those are the typical ones I deal with.
>>
>Ones I have personal experience with:
>GLBX - yes
>SAVVIS - no
>VZB - yes, good luck
>ATT - "Beginning in 1Q2010 MIS will provide the ability to support IPv6
>in a dual stack mode."
>When I disconnected my SAVVIS circuit in November 2009 I explicitly told
>them IPv6 was a deciding factor. Not all of Verizon's pops are IPv6
>enabled, which may cause you trouble ordering it. It's put me in month
>11 of trying to turn up a dual-stack circuit because they refuse to read
>the order and keep putting it in Sacramento (v4 only) when it needs to
>go to San Jose (dual-stack). Sprint wasn't on your list, but they are
>rolling out native IPv6 support on all of 1239. I've been using their
>6175 testbed since 2005.
>~Seth
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Here's what I know:
ATT - Yes;
http://www.corp.att.com/gov/solution/network_services/data_nw/ipv6/
Level3 - Yes; http://www.level3.com/downloads/IPv6_Brochure.pdf
GLBX (If we're talking Global Crossing) - Yes (I talked with them right
after they came out of bankruptcy; look at Wikipedia)
http://www.globalcrossing.com/ipkc/ipkc_ipv6.aspx
Saavis - Don't know; claim was made in 2006 they would be ready in 2008
(based on the above from Seth, they probably blew it off)
Verizon Business - Yes; LTE roll out is coming to "officially" open the v6
doors mandating v6 support for all connections and just "enabling" v4
connections; Verizon Federal has supported (via MCI) the DoD DREN for years,
at least since 2005.
Qwest - Yes; (I'm moderating an IPv6 panel with Owen Delong from HE and
Qwest in April)
Ones you didn't ask about, but are significant v6 players
Sprint - Yes; Absolutely (Colleagues of mine helped them with some of their
IPv6 security issues in 2008)
NTT - Absolutely yes (Check out the Google IPv6 Implementer's conference and
Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit presentations from last year's conferences)
Cheers,
Ralph
