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Re: Comcast IPv6 Update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Jun 1 15:25:23 2012

Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:21:18 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
In-Reply-To: <4FC904A0.6010702@rollernet.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Fri, Jun 01, 2012 at 11:06:24AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> On 6/1/12 7:04 AM, Brzozowski, John wrote:
> > Jimmy,
> > 
> > Trust me, I work for Comcast and run the IPv6 program.  This has been the
> > case for nearly 7 years.  We can take some of the items below off list.
> > 
> > We have launched IPv6 for residential broadband at this time.  Commercial
> > DOCSIS support is later this year.
> > 
> > We can do two things.  Get you a residential trial kit so you can have
> > IPv6 for W6L and make sure I have your information for when we start
> > trials for commercial DOCSIS support for IPv6.
> >
> 
> 
> Forgive me if this is a stupid question since I've never been a cable
> guy, but what's physical difference between residential and commercial coax?

	Usually these are terminated on a different CMTS and may use different
frequencies allocated.

	From a business side, there is a higher SLA afforded to the users,
including phone notification of planned outages, etc that would happen.

	- Jared

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