On 6/1/2012 11:06, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 6/1/12 7:04 AM, Brzozowski, John wrote:
Jimmy,
Trust me, I work for Comcast and run the IPv6 program. This has been the case for nearly 7 years. We can take some of the items below off list.
We have launched IPv6 for residential broadband at this time. Commercial DOCSIS support is later this year.
We can do two things. Get you a residential trial kit so you can have IPv6 for W6L and make sure I have your information for when we start trials for commercial DOCSIS support for IPv6.
Forgive me if this is a stupid question since I've never been a cable guy, but what's physical difference between residential and commercial coax?
~Seth
I'm a Comcast biz customer, mostly so I can have static IPs. I believe the main differences are that biz class has a different group of people supporting it and provisioning it. They also use different CPE. Probably also use different VLANs and such past the head end. But for biz class customers on cable, it uses the same underlying infrastructure as residential. I'm mostly speculating here, but I'd think a big hurdle for getting IPv6 service on biz class is in coming up with the support/provisioning/logistics infrastructure to support biz customers with IPv6. The residential customers have less control over the CPE than business class, likely making it easier for comcast to make changes for residential service. Comcast can update the CPE image, start running DHCPv6, and voila. But biz customers routers are somewhat configurable, and many biz class customers run their own routers/firewalls behind the comcast CPE (as do some residential customers also, of course), likely making things more complicated. I'd speculate that all the technical pieces are there to do it, but the logistical/support/management pieces probably aren't ready yet. Obviously, only the Comcast guys on here (John and Jason) know the whole story. But I'm patiently waiting for my native v6! It'll happen eventually. :-)