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Re: IPv6 news [global crossing]

  • From: Pekka Savola
  • Date: Wed Oct 12 15:05:05 2005 
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:

On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:33:42AM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

Global Crossing says it has deployed native IPv6.  Also, TeliaSonera
has picked Lucent to help it prepare for IPv6 service.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/172300284

The full GC PR is at;

	http://www.globalcrossing.com/xml/news/2005/october/10.xml
Umm..

"IPv6 [...] delivered over our global, MPLS-based backbone."

It's not clear whether they're doing 6PE over their v4/MPLS backbone, running v6 in parallel to v4/MPLS or running v6/MPLS (I don't think vendors support this).

At least one of these doesn't (IMHO) qualify as "native IPv6 [backbone]".

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