8 Nov
2018
8 Nov
'18
9:54 p.m.
On 9/11/2018 10:38 am, Neil Johnson wrote:
It's just going to be fun to watch the market for
IPv4 address space boom
and then bust when IPv6 adoption finally reaches critical mass.
I'm still waiting for IPv6... It's nearly 2019 - if carriers haven't
deployed IPv6 by now, then they probably never plan to.
Only one Australian carrier supports it on their mobile and landline
networks, with a smaller scale deployments at niche ISPs. For the
overwhelming majority, traditional dynamic IPv4 allocations or CG-NAT is
being used.
Until a major site like Facebook release a new feature that's only
available on IPv6 and customers hassle their ISPs about it, carriers are
going to go with what's cheap and what they know - and that's NAT.
73
Gavin.