IPv6 and CDN's

Mark Tinka mark at tinka.africa
Sat Nov 27 13:15:57 UTC 2021



On 11/26/21 16:16, Jose Luis Rodriguez wrote:

> Well … YMMV. We’ve been running v6 for years, and it didn’t really make a dent in spend or boxes or rate of v4 depletion. Big part of the problem in our neck of the woods is millions of v4-only terminals … as well as large customer/gov bids requiring tons of v4 address space.

I can very easily see why "IPv6 saves you on CG-NAT capex might not be 
entirely true" in cases such as these.

On paper, it all adds up.

Mark.


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