Sorry, I just woke up: "there end of the tunnel" = "their end of the tunnel". On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Kristian Kielhofner <kris@kriskinc.com> wrote:
Assuming you're in the US (or most other parts of the world besides Asia); it won't work. Here's why:
Almost no last mile providers will deliver native IPv6 (currently). Your customers would have to use a tunneling service like HE to even get to you. First there are hassles setting up the tunnel in the first place, then there are issues with latency, packet loss, jitter, etc using a tunnel service that has to haul all of your IPv6 in IPv4 traffic back to their gateway in a central location. VoIP is just about the worst service you could use via an IPv6 tunnel.
You could try to offer your own IPv6 tunneling service but there's still the issue of customers setting up there end of the tunnel. Besides, encapsulation sucks.
The IPv4 global routing table has at least 424,000 networks:
http://bgp.potaroo.net/index-bgp.html
The IPv6 global routing table has 10,215 networks:
http://bgp.potaroo.net/v6/as2.0/
Granted IPv6 networks tend to be better organized and more "compact" (at least as far as advertisements are concerned) but that's still a factor of 40:1.
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Alex <alex@thewinelake.com> wrote:
We've been wondering about trying to offer a service on ipv6 as it would get around various LAN issues.
Just wondered what experiences (good or bad) people here have had with it and also why there isn't more "'buzz"?
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