IPv6 gear almost ready for Comcast trials
23 Apr 2010
Comcast has scheduled for early June the trials of various IPv6 technologies it first announced back in January. The announcements reveal the different status in terms of IPv6 preparedness of various cable industry vendors, including Cisco, Arris, Motorola, Juniper and Netgear.
IPv4 Internet address space is expected to be completely exhausted by the latter half of 2011, forcing a transition to IPv6. In addition to promising address space far beyond the capacity anyone can imagine ever needing (enough to give a permanent IP address to every atom on the face of the earth, by some calculations), IPv6 also has features that should help operators improve QoS and support mobility applications, among other benefits.
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