[Community-Discuss] [afnog] IPv6 in Zimbabwe

Musa Stephen Honlue honlue at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 06:50:07 UTC 2016


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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