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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 06:37:36AM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > The deployment of IPv6 is going to be EXPENSIVE in terms of real opex > and probably real capex as well, it IS going to be visible on the bottom > line of every ISP on the planet, eroding whatever margins one has. I'll buy opex, but not capex. In fact, if it's capex expensive then we are not managing our vendors correctly. New hardware and software being developed today should be designed to support IPv6, it's not that hard. The price increases necessary to support it are small, as long as it's done early on in the process. This insures that boxes deployed 1-3 years from now will be fully IPv6 ready at little or no cost over their inital deployment cost. Sure, when the v6 day comes some stuff will just have to be replaced, and there may well be a few items that just cost more for v6, so it won't be cost free. That said, it shouldn't break the bank. Opex is another story, and at the moment a bit scary. -- Leo Bicknell - [email protected] Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org
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