RE: NANOG Digest, Vol 26, Issue 50

["Ralph Wallace" <wallacerl () verizon net>]

> Message: 13
> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:18:35 -0800
> From: Seth Mattinen <sethm () rollernet us>
> Subject: Re: IPv6 enabled carriers?
> To: nanog () nanog org
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> On 3/10/10 11:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> > Does anyone have a list of carriers who are IPv6 capable today?
> >
> > I would assume this would be rolled out in larger cities first but
> > anything outside of "testbed environments" and "trials" as in
> > Comcast's recent announcement seems to be all that is available.
> >
> > I'm being tasked with coming up with an IPv6 migration plan for a data
center.
> > Mostly interested in if ATT, Level3, GLBX, Saavis, Verizon Business
> > and Qwest are capable as those are the typical ones I deal with.

> Ones I have personal experience with:

> GLBX - yes
> SAVVIS - no
> VZB - yes, good luck
> ATT - "Beginning in 1Q2010 MIS will provide the ability to support IPv6
> in a dual stack mode."

> When I disconnected my SAVVIS circuit in November 2009 I explicitly told
> them IPv6 was a deciding factor. Not all of Verizon's pops are IPv6
> enabled, which may cause you trouble ordering it. It's put me in month
> 11 of trying to turn up a dual-stack circuit because they refuse to read
> the order and keep putting it in Sacramento (v4 only) when it needs to
> go to San Jose (dual-stack). Sprint wasn't on your list, but they are
> rolling out native IPv6 support on all of 1239. I've been using their
> 6175 testbed since 2005.

> ~Seth
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Here's what I know:

ATT - Yes;
http://www.corp.att.com/gov/solution/network_services/data_nw/ipv6/
Level3 - Yes; http://www.level3.com/downloads/IPv6_Brochure.pdf
GLBX (If we're talking Global Crossing) - Yes (I talked with them right
after they came out of bankruptcy; look at Wikipedia)
http://www.globalcrossing.com/ipkc/ipkc_ipv6.aspx
Saavis - Don't know; claim was made in 2006 they would be ready in 2008
(based on the above from Seth, they probably blew it off)
Verizon Business - Yes; LTE roll out is coming to "officially" open the v6
doors mandating v6 support for all connections and just "enabling" v4
connections; Verizon Federal has supported (via MCI) the DoD DREN for years,
at least since 2005.
Qwest - Yes; (I'm moderating an IPv6 panel with Owen Delong from HE and
Qwest in April) 

Ones you didn't ask about, but are significant v6 players
Sprint - Yes; Absolutely (Colleagues of mine helped them with some of their
IPv6 security issues in 2008)
NTT - Absolutely yes (Check out the Google IPv6 Implementer's conference and
Rocky Mountain IPv6 Summit presentations from last year's conferences)

Cheers,
Ralph