[AusNOG] IPv6: It's a business decision - Timing

[Craig Askings]

Speaking of costs, one of my clients is negotiating for a link in the US from Hurricane Electric. They offered him a discount of $100 a month if he advertised a ipv6 prefix to them. So in some (very rare) cases it is now more expensive to remain ipv4 only.


On 14/03/2013, at 3:56 PM, Martin Visser <martinvisser99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott,
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> I certainly read Lee Howard (in the article) as saying the cost of a CGN provisioned IPv4 user moving to $70 per year. 
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> I actually do think the cost will go upwards with size. A lot of network devices scale inversely at the big end. For instance a firewall that easily supports say a 500 users could be got for a maybe $1000. But to put in firewall infrastructure to support 500 000 users I very much doubt you can do it for a $1M - certainly if you want to get similar levels of performance and availability. The operational costs can also be huge. Pure silicon might follow Moore's Law but I'm not sure that operating a CGN infrastructure falls into that pattern so easily. 
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> My biggest beef with intransigence on IPv6 is that it will stymie the rollout of the "Internet of Things" that is going to bring a generational change in how we use technology.
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> Martin
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