Month: November 2011
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And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production Network
Continue Reading: And So It Begins… Comcast Starts Rolling Out IPv6 Production NetworkFor those of us wanting to see IPv6 deployed, yesterday brought the great news that Comcast has started rolling out its IPv6 production network to customers.
Now, granted, the initial rollout was to only 100 homes in San Francisco’s East Bay. It is also restricted to a single computer directly connected to a Comcast cable modem. This initial rollout did not support home routers which are typically found for WiFi in many/most homes these days.
Still… it’s a start!
The experience Comcast gains with this initial rollout will only help them with wider rollouts and the inclusion of home routers.
Kudos to Comcast for this start of their IPv6 rollout… I’m looking forward to hearing of other service providers starting their IPv6 deployments! (Time Warner, I’m talking about you! 🙂
UPDATE: Comcast has now come out with two of their own blog posts on this topic:
- Deployment of IPv6 Begins by Jason Livingood
- Technical Details for Our IPv6 Deployment by John Brzozowski
Notice in particular this great part to the technical piece:
It is also important to note that we are deploying native dual stack, which means a customer gets both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses. That means we are…
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Video: Voxeo’s New 60,000 Sq. Ft. Co-Working Office Space Featured in Fox News Interview
Continue Reading: Video: Voxeo’s New 60,000 Sq. Ft. Co-Working Office Space Featured in Fox News InterviewWant to see what Voxeo’s cool new office space looks like? The 60,000 square feet that also includes “co-working” space for startups?
Kudos to my former colleagues at Voxeo and to CEO Jonathan Taylor in particular for this great video interview on Orlando’s Fox 35… check it out:
It’s both a very cool space for Voxeons and also a great idea to create a startup incubator right there in the heart of downtown Orlando.
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Want to Learn About Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC? Attend the ION Conference in Toronto on Nov 14th
Continue Reading: Want to Learn About Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC? Attend the ION Conference in Toronto on Nov 14thWould you like to learn about how to deploy IPv6? Would you like to hear from people who are already using IPv6 within their networks? Would you like to learn a bit about DNSSEC and how it can help you secure your online presence?
If so, please join us in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, for our next “Internet ON” (ION) Conference on Monday, November 14, 2011, starting at 12:30pm and sponsored by the Internet Society (my new employer). The sessions on the agenda include:
- New ISOC Initiative – Bridging the Divide Between IETF Standards and Industry-wide Deployment
- Panel Discussion: Challenges and Opportunities in Deploying IPv6, DNSSEC, and Other Key Technologies
- World IPv6 Day Recap (my presentation)
- Ask the Expert: Next Steps to Implementing IPv6
- Closing Remarks and Q&A
We’re looking forward to providing a great session for people to ask questions and talk about how to get these technologies actually deployed in networks today.
The ION conference is part of the larger 2011 Canadian ISP Summit that takes place on the following two days and is included as part of the registration for the Canadian ISP Summit.
However, registration for the ION conference is FREE if you just want to attend…
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44% of SIP Implementations at SIPit 29 Supported IPv6!
Continue Reading: 44% of SIP Implementations at SIPit 29 Supported IPv6!Last week (Oct 24-27) was the 29th SIPit interoperability test event hosted by ETSI in Monaco. Organizer Robert Sparks has provided his usual outstanding summary of what occurred:
https://www.sipit.net/SIPit29_summary
The key point for me, given my new role, was right up at the top:
44% of the implementations present supported IPv6.
Now, of course ideally we’d like that to be 100%, but hey, it’s at least a good start!
There is also some narrative further down the report about “IPv6 Focused Tests” with some interesting info. One interesting note seems to be this:
Most UAs that supported dual-stack had a configuration to tell the application to ignore any returned AAAAs due to issues encountered in deployments where endpoints autoconfigured IPV6 that didn’t actually work.
In the web world this has been referred to as the “happy eyeballs” problem where a browser will try a DNS AAAA record to get to a site over IPv6 and then eventually will fail back to trying the A record to go over IPv4. The delay will cause the user to be very UNhappy. There are a couple of ways to address the issue with the usual one being to try both IPv6 and IPv4…