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Re: IPv6 and CDN's


From: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 15:15:57 +0200



On 11/26/21 16:16, Jose Luis Rodriguez wrote:

Well … YMMV. We’ve been running v6 for years, and it didn’t really make a dent in spend or boxes or rate of v4 
depletion. Big part of the problem in our neck of the woods is millions of v4-only terminals … as well as large 
customer/gov bids requiring tons of v4 address space.

I can very easily see why "IPv6 saves you on CG-NAT capex might not be entirely true" in cases such as these.

On paper, it all adds up.

Mark.


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