Comcast signs first IPv6 corporate customer
Comcast last week installed the first corporate customer for its new native dual-stack service, which supports both IPv4, the current version of the Internet Protocol, and the long-anticipated upgrade known as IPv6.
Comcast wouldn’t reveal any details about the customer, saying only that it is a well-known technology company located in the San Francisco Bay area.
“These folks came and switched to Comcast because we have native IPv6 as part of our commercial offerings for access services,” says John Brzozowski, Chief Architect for the IPv6 Program at Comcast. “It is certainly a milestone for Comcast…We have more news to come on this front.”
Comcast is conducting a public trial of IPv6 services and plans to complete its transition to IPv6 by 2012.
Carriers such as Comcast are upgrading to IPv6 because the Internet is running out of IPv4 address space. The regional Internet registries said in April 2010 that less than 8% of IPv4 addresses remain unallocated
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