On 03/01/2011 07:39 AM, George Bonser wrote:
Fairly major global network provider likes to call themselves a "Tier 1". Asking about native IPv6 in one of their colo facilities in the UK. They say their US facilities won't be v6 capable until Q4 2011. The UK rep acted like it was the first he'd ever heard of it and implied we were the very first to ask for it.
Note to providers: That might have worked a couple of years ago but when we hear that today, we know it is false. Please be honest in your responses to that question. If you aren't going to deploy it for another year or two, just say so. The notion that we are the very first ones to ever ask for it from a global provider in a major country is just lame.
George
Having worked both inside and outside the ISP industry, I wouldn't necessarily trust a salesman to know a DSL from a leased line, let alone IPv6 vs IPv4, nor to have remembered being asked about it before. That's stuff for pre-sales engineers to handle, not the salesman.