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

Raymond Macharia rmacharia at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 09:07:31 UTC 2016


Hi Andrew
Great work indeed and thanks for the sharing. Its really a milestone.

Regards
Raymond Macharia

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:48 PM Andrew Alston <
Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:

> 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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