UPC begins this year with the offering ipv6 to its subscribers. Currently holds the kabelaar a field trial among a small group of customers. Ziggo run less hard to the deployment of ipv6: the cable company does not want to term call where ipv6 is available.
The tests with ipv6 according to UPC is successful enough to make the move to the ‘new’ protocol to all of its customers to offer: “We strive to ipv6 this year to roll out”, let spokesman Maaike Scholten, Tweakers know. It manages to all subscribers this year, is not clear.
The field trial of UPC started last summer. It was a ten-UPC-subscribers an additional cable modem to a so-called dual-stack lite-version of the ipv6 test. In addition to a number of private ipv6 addresses to the participants of an ipv4 address via network address translation to share. It uses so-called aftr’s on the UPC network.
Ziggo wants, yet no specific term to call for the introduction of ipv6: spokesman Gradus Vos shows only los that the kabelaar as fast as possible ipv6 to consumers, it wants to offer. The backbone is suitable for ipv6, and corporate customers will get an ipv6 address.
Like UPC, Ziggo small-scale field trials with ipv6. The roll-out of a recently released firmware update for the Cisco EPC 3928-modem, in which ipv6 settings were, however, discontinued. According to Fox encountered a ‘select few’ customers have problems with the telephony feature of the modem. The problematic firmware upgrade, which to a limited number of customers is offered, is being replaced by an older version which the ipv6 functionality is missing.
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