RE: Comcast IPv6 Trials

28 Jan 2010


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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Barnes [mailto:richard.barnes@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 07:47
To: Kevin Oberman
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Comcast IPv6 Trials
What I've heard is that the driver is IPv4 exhaustion: Comcast is
starting to have enough subscribers that it can't address them all out
of 10/8 -- ~millions of subscribers, each with >1 IP address (e.g.,
for user data / control of the cable box).
++1, reference:
http://www.apricot.net/apricot2006/slides/conf/wednesday/Alain_Durand-Archit
ecture-external.ppt 


/TJ