[Community-Discuss] [afnog] IPv6 in Zimbabwe

[Andrew Alston]

In this particular case they are Huawei ONT’s.  So not exactly a regular CPE (ONT’s are typically vendor locked to the deployed OLTs)

Thanks

Andrew



On 29/09/2016, 16:29, "Loganaden Velvindron" <loganaden at gmail.com> wrote:

    On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:09 AM, 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
    >
    
    Hi Andrew,
    
    Congratulations, what is the particular model for the CPE ?