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On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:00:23PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: > > 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]". They are delivering native v6 sessions (both customer handoff and backbone links) via their Juniper core. I don't know what they're doing with the GSRs, or even how many of them they have left, but I di know that all of the Juniper-based v6 is native. The "MPLS-based backbone" stuff is just standard marketing fluff. -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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