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IPv6 Tested in Space

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the still-nobody-using-it-down-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Remember the Cisco router orbiting on a satellite in space? Well, it's now also the first to run IPv6 in space. Since no-one is choosing to run IPv6 on the ground, isn't this a bit pointless?"

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  1. Not true by cjonslashdot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is not so that no one is choosing it on the ground. The US government is mandating a move to IP6, and further virtally all of the major backbone providers now implement it. Vista supports it in a huge way. The missing link is that local ISPs have not turned it on, but they will. In a couple of years you will see a very sudden and comprehensive shift to IP6. There are many large business models that depend on it.