[157166] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Native IPv6 providers/datacenters list?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Oct 9 11:07:01 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <5E164EA7-4CBF-4A40-A9BB-2AD2A2439925@u13.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 11:05:29 -0400
To: Ryan Rawdon <ryan@u13.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 9, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Ryan Rawdon <ryan@u13.net> wrote:
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> On Oct 9, 2012, at 9:34 AM, Christopher J. Pilkington wrote:
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>> I want to make an informed response to a comment made by our
>> CenturyLink rep regarding IPv6, in the context of SAVVIS not
>> being able to provide IPv6 at their DC3 facility:
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>>> There is only a handful of carriers that can provide that
>>> service today and CenturyLink (Legacy Qwest) happen to be one
>>> of them.
>>=20
>> Is there a list of native IPv6 providers out there somewhere,
>> particularly one that includes hosting data centers (e.g.,
>> SAVVIS), with which I could cluebat^Wshare with my rep?
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> I'm not sure about a list of facilities, but here's a start for =
transit providers who should be able to provide IPv6 connectivity:
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> =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_IPv6_support_by_major_transit_p=
roviders
I'll come out in public and say that sometimes a backbone supports it =
but the datacenter group does not. This is quite common core -> edge =
deployment strategy with network technology. Some technology can grow =
from the edges inward, but IPv6 is not a technology that does it [well].
I've been observing some big increases in IPv6 traffic (its no longer =
measured in Mbps as from years ago, but in Gbps). I'm waiting for it to =
approach a fair percentage of the IPv4 traffic but there are some big =
steps being made by the networks and edges to bridge this gap.
- Jared=
