Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?

[Thomas Marshall Eubanks <tme () 21rst-century com>]

smd () clock org wrote:

> | The bottom-line appears that everyone is waiting for everyone else to
> | twitch first, then the shoot-out starts. However, no one is all that
> | interested in twitching.
>
> Also, nobody is willing to get shot!
>
> The deployment of IPv6 is going to be EXPENSIVE in terms of real opex
> and probably real capex as well, it IS going to be visible on the bottom
> line of every ISP on the planet, eroding whatever margins one has.
>
> I can't see the deployment of IPv6 *ever* leading to any but the
> shortest-term revenue upside (if even that), therefore until the
> entire aggregate gross revenue of transit-providing ISPs up and
> down the entire food-chain is threatened, nobody will be deploying v6.
>
> The only alternative scenario I can think of is the deployment
> of IPv6 by a large provider who believes it can trigger a huge
> consolidation by pushing smaller ISPs it is competing with into an
> expensive deployment through sheer hype.

<snip>

>         Sean.

What about wireless IP? Isn't everyone supposed to be forced to adopt IPv6
once billions of mobile units start using it ?

http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2590226,00.html



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