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Knowing what I know about how corporations are run (which is nothing more than anyone else who has worked for multiple large organisations) the ISPs are draggin
by lokedhs 8y ago
Knowing what I know about how corporations are run (which is nothing more than anyone else who has worked for multiple large organisations) the ISPs are dragging their feet on IPv6 because they can get away with it and it saves them money.
I switched ISPs for my fibre connection because my previous one had an absolutely terrible IPv6 implementation. I made sure to let them know why they lost me as a customer, but it's very likely that never happened to them before or since.
I think IPSs can get away with horrible service and abominations like CGNAT for quite some time before it gets so bad that IPv6 gets properly deployed.
- scrollaway 8y agoNone of this explains why the growth suddenly slowed down. My best theory is it has to do with adoption of mobile ISPs.
- dx034 8y agoIt would appear to me that a lot of the previous growth came from Jio in India which added a lot of users in 2016&2017. That has slowed down now so that the overall growth has slowed. You'd probably need to see very large providers switching over to see further jumps of that size.
- bewo001 8y agoTo get a project going you need to convince mgmt that it can make or save money. And you need a shiny demo. With IPv6 migration, this was tricky. It costs a lot of money up front to get IPv6 support for all routers and backend systems. There aren't really new products you can show. Being able to give retail customers a fixed IPv6 address will reduce the demand for more profitable business access products. The best argument was that IPv4 address depletion would make it difficult to add customers.