[Community-Discuss] [afnog] IPv6 in Zimbabwe

[ARTHUR CARINDAL]

Dear Andrew

We did appreciate your collaboration.  And once again, well done!
Regards

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> On 29 Sep 2016, at 10:39 AM, Andrew Alston <Andrew.Alston at liquidtelecom.com> wrote:
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> Hi Guys,
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thanks
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> Andrew
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