[Community-Discuss] IPv6 in Zimbabwe

[Timothy Ola Akinfenwa]

+1 Andrew and the team who made it happen!

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On 29 Sep 2016 8:25 a.m., "Paul McMaster" <paulm at faircape.co.za> wrote:

> +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,
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>>
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