[182210] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Howard)
Mon Jul 13 10:05:43 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:05:32 -0400
From: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>, Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <A3470511-BA93-46A1-99C4-DAAD8E46E869@beckman.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 7/9/15, 11:04 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman"
<nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of mel@beckman.org> wrote:
>I working on a large airport WiFi deployment right now. IPv6 is "allowed
>for in the future" but not configured in the short term. With less than
>10,000 ephemeral users, we don't expect users to demand IPv6 until most
>mobile devices and apps come ready to use IPv6 by default.
I didn=B9t see anybody point out that most mobile devices and apps come
ready to use IPv6 by default.
At least, all Android and iOS devices do, and Apple recently announced
that IPv6 support will be mandatory in future apps.
Plus, Facebook, at least, says IPv6 is faster over mobile. Don=B9t know how
it does over Wi-Fi.
Lee
