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I used to work for the consulting arm of a telco, and the projects with the telco direct involvement demanded IPv6 compliance by early 2013. You would think th
by cdf 14y ago
I used to work for the consulting arm of a telco, and the projects with the telco direct involvement demanded IPv6 compliance by early 2013.
You would think that working with a telco, getting IPv6 is easy. Except it is not. It is a mountain of extra monthly costs with absolutely no business benefit whatsoever on both the server end and the user end. Other than an IPv6 lab, we have no means of testing and no user we are aware of has access to IPv6. Furthermore, my tiny project team still had a truckload of pre-allocated IPv4 addresses that are still unused.
Despite the doomsday talk, I really fail to see how IPv6 is going to take off any time soon. Even my proposal to put one machine out there with HAProxy to redirect IPv6 to IPv4 addresses is getting lukewarm support from management as at the time of my departure just last month.
- ghshephard 14y agoIPv6 is an _awesome_ protocol for telemetry networks, and for mobile networks in which address mobility is required for millions (or 10s of millions) of devices. All of the carriers/companies that I talk with from time to time who need to deal with those two problems (> 10 million devices, and address mobility, that is, those 10 million+ devices can move around from network to network quickly) - see a lot of value in IPv6; it's the right tool for that job.