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Comcast Carrying 1Tbit/s of IPv6 Internet Traffic

Posted by Unknown on from the hurd-1.0-released dept.

New submitter Tim the Gecko (745081) writes Comcast has announced 1Tb/s of Internet facing, native IPv6 traffic, with more than 30% deployment to customers. With Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Wikipedia up to speed, it looks we are past the "chicken and egg" stage. IPv6 adoption by other carriers is looking better too with AT&T at 20% of their network IPv6 enabled, Time Warner at 10%, and Verizon Wireless at 50%. The World IPv6 Launch site has measurements of global IPv6 adoption.

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  1. Re:Advantages? by CAPSLOCK2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The big advantage is that all my computers are reachable through the internet, no more NATting port 80 and port 22 to strange ports because you can use every port only once.
    A secondary advantage is that port 25 is not filtered, although that's not inherent to IPv6, just a lucky benefit of my current tunnel-provider.

  2. Nice graphics at Cisco by CAPSLOCK2000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Cisco has nice graphics of the IPv6-deployement in the world. It's based on the same measurements but presented with nice graphs instead of a boring table of numbers. Look up your own country at http://6lab.cisco.com/stats/in... .

  3. Re:Saying something good about ComCast hurts my br by eli+pabst · · Score: 4, Informative

    In actual fact, the ComCast internet service is not too bad.

    Their cable TV service is another story. I'm reading this article right now because my cable box is busy rebooting...again.