>Message: 13 >Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:35 -0800 >From: Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: IPv6 enabled carriers? >To: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
>On 3/10/10 11:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote: >> Does anyone have a list of carriers who are IPv6 capable today? >> >> I would assume this would be rolled out in larger cities first but >> anything outside of "testbed environments" and "trials" as in >> Comcast's recent announcement seems to be all that is available. >> >> I'm being tasked with coming up with an IPv6 migration plan for a data center. >> >> Mostly interested in if ATT, Level3, GLBX, Saavis, Verizon Business >> and Qwest are capable as those are the typical ones I deal with. >> >Ones I have personal experience with: >GLBX - yes >SAVVIS - no >VZB - yes, good luck >ATT - "Beginning in 1Q2010 MIS will provide the ability to support IPv6 >in a dual stack mode." >When I disconnected my SAVVIS circuit in November 2009 I explicitly told >them IPv6 was a deciding factor. Not all of Verizon's pops are IPv6 >enabled, which may cause you trouble ordering it. It's put me in month >11 of trying to turn up a dual-stack circuit because they refuse to read >the order and keep putting it in Sacramento (v4 only) when it needs to >go to San Jose (dual-stack). Sprint wasn't on your list, but they are >rolling out native IPv6 support on all of 1239. I've been using their >6175 testbed since 2005. >~Seth ------------------------------ Here's what I know: ATT - Yes; http://www.corp.att.com/gov/solution/network_services/data_nw/ipv6/ Level3 - Yes; http://www.level3.com/downloads/IPv6_Brochure.pdf GLBX (If we're talking Global Crossing) - Yes (I talked with them right after they came out of bankruptcy; look at Wikipedia) http://www.globalcrossing.com/ipkc/ipkc_ipv6.aspx Saavis - Don't know; claim was made in 2006 they would be ready in 2008 (based on the above from Seth, they probably blew it off) Verizon Business - Yes; LTE roll out is coming to "officially" open the v6 doors mandating v6 support for all connections and just "enabling" v4 connections; Verizon Federal has supported (via MCI) the DoD DREN for years, at least since 2005. Qwest - Yes; (I'm moderating an IPv6 panel with Owen Delong from HE and Qwest in April) Ones you didn't ask about, but are significant v6 players Sprint - Yes; Absolutely (Colleagues of mine helped them with some of their IPv6 security issues in 2008) NTT - Absolutely yes (Check out the Google IPv6 Implementer's conference and Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit presentations from last year's conferences) Cheers, Ralph
