[155809] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 172.0.0.0/12 has been Allocated
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Aug 23 10:19:49 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <50363856.8070103@ispn.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:18:45 -0400
To: Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Blake Hudson <blake@ispn.net> wrote:
> How does one suddenly justify needing 1,000,000 more IP addresses =
(explosive expected growth in the next couple months?)
I can easily see people moving through those IPs in short order if you =
have a datacenter or other deployment you are working on. I've heard =
stories from some of the popular sites about how they have consumed all =
the 'private' space for their internal-side servers/infrastructure so =
started to go after public IPs (in addition to IPv6) to workaround the =
problem.
AT&T hasn't seen the wireline subscriber growth, but I'm sure their =
wireless side, datacenter, and other needs are driving growth.
- Jared=
