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

[Loganaden Velvindron]

I completely agree with you.

I was thinking about the email from Andrew:

"
I’m actually in the process of authoring an RFI though to various
vendors looking to explore other CPE options and find out what’s out
there and who can meet the specifications we require.  Considering the
volume’s I’m looking to purchase as well, it should be interesting to
see which vendors reply with “We can do it” vs those who reply “We’ll
produce something that can do it and fast on the basis of this RFI”
"

The local providers have asked me advice regarding purchase of CPE
equipment. I told them: "Ask for OpenWRT/LEDE as base, and drivers
merged upstream into OpenWRT. That will give you a better product,
with less support costs in the long term."

It makes engineering sense to leverage the OpenWRT/LEDE community bug
fixing for their milestone release, and just build a product off it.
This is not that different from what CISCO is doing.

One ISP (free.fr) did something quite interesting: their revolution
box ships with AQM. They did so by shopping around for a router vendor
that would accept a business requirement: modify the DSL driver to
implement AQM by leveraging a recent Linux kernel (>3.18).

The result is better handling of bufferbloat for all of their customers.