On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
McTim,
True that we are unlikely to have IPv6 ONLY services soon. But it is also true that this could be the ONLY (business) reason to get African ISPs/Telcos to adopt IPv6 networks.
My crystal ball says we the Telcos will implement some godawful CGN instead of native v6.
The idea that one futuristic day, their customers will one day wake up and find that they cannot access some IPv6 only services hosted overseas... and then their customers will migrate to Telcos/ISPs that are IPv6 ready (i.e. can provide the access to IPv6 only services).
That's the theory. We haven't seen that in practice (yet).
In Africa we find ourselves in a retrogressive "benefit" in that our IPv4 uptake is so slow that it could take us another 10-15yrs to exhaust - meaning we can comfortably afford another 8-10years without actually being FORCED to use the new generation IPv6 networks. By that time, the rest of the world would have had 10+ solid years of IPv6 technology experience and we shall as usual be trying to play catchup...
Maybe. We do have v6 networks in Africa, we have the expertise (in some places). We have 10+ years of v6 experience already. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel