Comcast IPv6 Trials

Thu Jan 28 13:26:06 UTC 2010

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Barnes [mailto:richard.barnes at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 07:47
> To: Kevin Oberman
> Cc: nanog at 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