[afnog] IPv6 Native Mass Market Deployment arrives in Kenya!

[Mark Tinka]

Hi Andrew.

Many congratulations. This is, indeed, a major step, and for me, the
first of its kind in eastern and southern Africa (mostly because I'm not
sure how far this is going in northern and western Africa - otherwise
I'd say the whole of Africa).

I've been challenging a number of broadband ISP's and MNO's in Africa in
recent years to put a lot more focus and energy in getting consumers
IPv6-enabled, so to hear that Liquid have succeeded in doing this in
Kenya is very good news, indeed!

It would be good to hear of challenges specifically around customer
devices picking up IPv6 addresses, and potentially running into Happy
Eyeball issues if at all. If you can share that as your experience
grows, it would tell a good story.

Once again, good work, Andrew and your team! I'm quite impressed to hear
this!

Mark.

On 12/Aug/16 11:45, Andrew Alston wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I thought I’d just share this with all of you because I view it as a
> fairly major step in the right direction for the continent.
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> Yesterday, Liquid Telecom turned on IPv6 to all its Kenyan home users
> using GPON and our FTTH / FTTB products.  This was done in such a way
> that the customers didn’t need to configure anything themselves to
> enable it, it was just there J
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> The CPE’s are all pushed a configuration as well to SLAAC enable the
> LAN facing interface and doing v6 DNS distribution via ND (though we
> also have v6 DHCP serving V6 DNS and other-config-flag set on the ND,
> so it can get the v6 DNS via either method if it doesn’t honor the
> other-config-flag)
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> Though, this is now a challenge to all the other ISP’s offering home
> user mass market products – v6 works – it’s time to start seeing more
> deployment J
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> We hope to have the v6 turned up shortly in Zimbabwe and other markets
> in the next few weeks as well.
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> Andrew
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