Ziggo is currently in the final process of a technical upgrade of its backbone, which are network suitable for ipv6. Customers of the kabelaar can the protocol it is expected that by the end of 2012.
The isp expects that his backbone in march is suitable for ipv6. Later this year, will other parts of the system, such as the accessnetwerk and management systems, to be made suitable for the support of the successor of the ipv4 protocol.
In the middle of this year, Ziggo’s network is fully ipv6-ready, then the provider still a few months off for things such as the core-routers to test and, if necessary, make adjustments. “At the end of this year, we want ipv6 to have a real roll-out” said Gradus Vos, spokesman of Ziggo, against Tweakers.net.
“We will start with the commercial market; thereafter, new consumentenaansluitingen with an ipv6 address will be delivered. Current customers will not by default be provided with an ipv6 address, but consumers can then request it. The expectation is that we are at the end of this year, ipv6 to all our customers.”
The modems that clients now in use have been according to the kabelaar in principle, all suitable for ipv6, or can relatively easily be made with a firmware update. The functionality is however only useful if Ziggo ipv6 support on the modem activates.
Ziggo shows, incidentally, ipv4 in the coming years, but will the two protocols in addition to support each other. By this so-called dual-stack solution works, the ipv6 connection is independent of the ipv4 connection.
In the Netherlands currently offers only Xs4all native ipv6 connections. Although this provider is one of the first in Europe was that the transition to ipv6 made and Ziggo this year also a sum of money in the bag do this, say critics, that the migration to ipv6 late. So TNO concluded earlier that the roll-out of ipv6 in the Netherlands is lagging behind that of five other European countries. In the preparations for the migration to the Netherlands would again be to the forefront.
The transition to ipv6 is needed because the current pool of ipv4 addresses is exhausted. That is partly due to the rapid emergence of mobile devices with internet access. With the introduction of ipv6 is switched from 32bits to 128bits-addresses, which in theory there are 340 trillion trillion trillion addresses available.