[Community-Discuss] [afnog] IPv6 in Zimbabwe

Alfred Kodjo D. AGODE alfred.agode at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 09:34:17 UTC 2016


Well done. 

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> Le 29 sept. 2016 à 07:18, PATRICK KOUOBOU <patrickouobou at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Well done and good initiative. Like barrack say where is next?
> 
> 2016-09-29 7:50 GMT+01:00 Musa Stephen Honlue <honlue at gmail.com>:
>> Well done.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 29, 2016 09:51, "Barrack Otieno" <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Well done Andrew and Liquid,
>>> 
>>> Way to go, where next?:-)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> 
>>> On 9/29/16, 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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