Message: 13 Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:35 -0800 From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> Subject: Re: IPv6 enabled carriers? To: nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: <4B97F08B.2070500@rollernet.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

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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

On 3/10/10 11:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote: center.

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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