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Re: Cogent input


From: Dave Israel <davei () otd com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:25:12 -0400


Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
"Cogent's official stance on IPv6 is that we will deploy IPv6 when it
becomes a commercial necessity. We have tested IPv6 and we have our
plan
for rolling it out, but there are no commercial drivers to spend money
to upgrade a network to IPv6 for no real return on investment."

Thats strange they are running pilots with customers on v6 in Amsterdam.

Not really so strange.  ISPs often pilot features (v6, multicast, etc)
that they have no immediate intention of deploying, so that they have
experience if and when it becomes profitable/sensible to deploy them.




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