 whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
Washington, DC | Lack of IPv6 Support Sprint's LTE network lacks IPv6 support. Silly Sprint, rolling out a "next generation" network without support for IPv6. Fail. (both VZW and T-Mo are running v6 now, not sure about AT&T). |
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join:2004-02-23
Johnson City, TN | I would hope that they built the network in a way that allows them to easily flip a switch and go to IPv6. I mean, it's a brand new network, and they have to know that the transition is inevitable, so they must have known it would have been idiotic to build it any other way. Of course, you know what they say... if you hope, the answer's nope.
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It's crazy they didn't turn on IPv6 on day one because IPv6 is so widely used right now...
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whfsdudePremium
join:2003-04-05
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| said by battleop:It's crazy they didn't turn on IPv6 on day one because IPv6 is so widely used right now... Major websites running it:
Wikipedia
Google (including youtube)
Bing
Yahoo
Netflix
Imgur
engadget
Google also shows 1.34% of their users in the US [ »www.google.com/ipv6/statistics.h···adoption ] are now defaulting to IPv6. While it might not seem like a lot of users, that's not an insignificant amount of traffic.
Of course the real question is why is IPv6 not turned on by default? Their LTE network is going to last how many years? 5, 10?
IPv6 adoption is only going to increase. You've got a brand new network. Do it right, dual stack it! |
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 vpokoPremium
join:2003-07-03
Boston, MA | I'm guessing they figured it would be easier to debug issues if they didn't roll out a new network layer protocol at the same time as they were rolling out new link & physical layer protocols. |
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join:2005-03-09
Saint Clair Shores, MI | said by vpoko:I'm guessing they figured it would be easier to debug issues if they didn't roll out a new network layer protocol at the same time as they were rolling out new link & physical layer protocols.
However, Sprint has been working with IPv6 for a while. It's not new, just not "flipped" on. I doubt they feel a need for it right now till everything is inplace.
»ipv6.com/articles/general/Sprint-IPv6.htm |
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