[137191] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed Feb 9 20:39:28 2011
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 17:38:18 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4D5336BB.8020602@iglou.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Jeff McAdams" <jeffm@iglou.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If you're not being heard by your vendor, you're not yelling loud
> enough. =20
Or you aren't big enough of a customer. I was at one manufacturer
within the past few months and asked about the lack of v6 support at
layer 3 in one of their product lines as I had an application for that
line but the lack of v6 layer 3 disqualified that solution. I was told
that $HUGE_CUSTOMER had placed $HUGE_ORDER and was needing layer 2
features as their highest priority and so that is where they were
focusing right now and that layer 3 ipv6 would be out later this year.
They did say that it was getting more difficult to sell the gear without
the layer 3 features and that the "real soon now" excuse was having
trouble getting any traction with potential customers but right now the
largest dollar amount of business hinged on layer 2 features.
