Re: IPv6 news [global crossing]

[Richard A Steenbergen <ras () e-gerbil net>]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:00:23PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:33:42AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > Global Crossing says it has deployed native IPv6.  Also, TeliaSonera
> > > has picked Lucent to help it prepare for IPv6 service.
> > >
> > > http://www.techweb.com/wire/172300284
> >
> > The full GC PR is at;
> >
> >     http://www.globalcrossing.com/xml/news/2005/october/10.xml
>
> Umm..
>
> "IPv6 [...] delivered over our global, MPLS-based backbone."
>
> It's not clear whether they're doing 6PE over their v4/MPLS backbone, 
> running v6 in parallel to v4/MPLS or running v6/MPLS (I don't think 
> vendors support this).
>
> At least one of these doesn't (IMHO) qualify as "native IPv6 
> [backbone]".

They are delivering native v6 sessions (both customer handoff and backbone 
links) via their Juniper core. I don't know what they're doing with the 
GSRs, or even how many of them they have left, but I di know that all of 
the Juniper-based v6 is native. The "MPLS-based backbone" stuff is just 
standard marketing fluff.

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