[153212] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast IPv6 Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Burwell)
Fri Jun 1 15:28:53 2012
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:28:09 -0700
From: Jim Burwell <jimb@jsbc.cc>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120601192118.GC3335@puck.nether.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/1/2012 12:21, Jared Mauch wrote:
> 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
>
Ah I didn't know they even used separate CMTS for the biz customers.
