[afnog] [Community-Discuss] IPv6 in Zimbabwe

[Paul McMaster]

+1 well done. It is nice to see the IPv6 traffic generally staying in our
region.

On 29 September 2016 at 07:09, Andrew Alston <
Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
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> So, let another exciting announcement – I apologize for the cross posting
> to both lists but I figured there were aspects of interest in both forums
> in what follows.
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> Yesterday we turned up IPv6 on our consumer products in Zimbabwe.  There
> are now in excess of 10 thousand FTTH users in Zimbabwe with active, live,
> native IPv6 – and they are actively using it.  This was the next phase
> after our smaller rollout in Kenya done a few weeks ago.
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> We crossed the 1.5gigabit/second of consumer v6 traffic last night in that
> particular location – and even more exciting, more than 70% of that traffic
> was sourced from CDN nodes and African peering – it did NOT come via long
> distance international links from Europe.
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> On the AFRINIC side – we followed the policy and registered each and every
> static customer assignment in the whois database – it held up well as we
> sent a bulk update with close to 15 thousand /48 assignments in a single
> update – my congrats to the AfriNIC team because that was one hell of a
> long update to process in one go.
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> So, with that said, others talk about being IPv6 ready – we can now
> proudly say we have gone from being IPv6 ready to being truly IPv6 active.
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> I expect the google stats and apnic stats will probably update in the next
> 2 or 3 days and it will be curious to see what shows up.  Let’s wait and
> see as the updates happen.
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> Thanks
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> Andrew
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