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Re: IPv6 deployment excuses
From: Tore Anderson <tore () fud no>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 15:34:15 +0200
* Mark Tinka
I understand your points - to your comment, my question is around whether it is cheaper (for you) to just run IPv6 in lieu of IPv6 and IPv4.
We've found that it is. IPv6-only greatly reduces complexity compared to dual stack. This means higher reliability, lower OpEx, shorter recovery time when something does go wrong anyway, fewer SLA violations, happier customers, and so on - the list goes on and on. Single stack is essentially the KISS option. It also means that we'll essentially never have to perform IPv4 renumbering exercises in order to accomodate for growth. Those tend to be very costly due to the man-hours required for planning and implementation. Besides, it means we don't need IPv4 to number customer infrastructure. As you probably know, IPv4 numbers have a real cost these days. My point of view is ASP/MSP/data centre stuff. I know I'm not alone in going down the IPv6 road here, though. Facebook is another prominent example. Other operators in different market segments are also doing IPv6-only. Kabel Deutschland and T-Mobile US, for example. I'm guessing they have similar motivations. Tore
Current thread:
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses, (continued)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mike Jones (Jul 02)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Ruairi Carroll (Jul 02)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses William Astle (Jul 02)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Denis Fondras (Jul 02)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Jared Mauch (Jul 02)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mark Tinka (Jul 03)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mark Tinka (Jul 03)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Ruairi Carroll (Jul 03)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mark Tinka (Jul 03)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Ruairi Carroll (Jul 03)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Tore Anderson (Jul 03)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mark Tinka (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Tore Anderson (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mark Tinka (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Ruairi Carroll (Jul 02)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Matt Hoppes (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mark Andrews (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Matt Hoppes (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Baldur Norddahl (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mikael Abrahamsson (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Matt Hoppes (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Christopher Morrow (Jul 04)
- Re: IPv6 deployment excuses Mike Jones (Jul 02)