AW: Questions for an ISP

[Elmer Sandro]

Guillaume,

> That's really unfair.
didn't mean to :\

Probably should have refrained from naming. And if 6rd is working fine, all the better. I thought it was rather unhandy for the enduser, but I might have been wrong there and, if anything at all, have displayed my own incompetence here rather than having badmouthed your company.

But the last presentation about your services that I saw (and that was a week ago) had stated that 2011 had been a pilot phase and operations had only started on Q2 2012 and that IP-plus services were still under way.

Anyways, good luck on the 6th, you guys ready? :)


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Guillaume.Leclanche at swisscom.com [mailto:Guillaume.Leclanche at swisscom.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 25. Mai 2012 14:07
An: Elmer Sandro; jeroen at unfix.org
Cc: ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
Betreff: RE: Questions for an ISP

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : 
> ipv6-ops-bounces+guillaume.leclanche=swisscom.com at lists.cluenet.de
> [mailto:ipv6-ops-
> bounces+guillaume.leclanche=swisscom.com at lists.cluenet.de] De la part 
> bounces+de
> Elmer Sandro
> Envoyé : vendredi 25 mai 2012 12:15
> À : Jeroen Massar
> Cc : ipv6-ops at lists.cluenet.de
> Objet : AW: Questions for an ISP
> 
> First off, thanks for your time!
> 
> > You do realize it is already 2012 and that you should have done this 
> > like, 10 years ago or so? :)
> I do realize this but up until this very year, the answer had been "We 
> do not support IPv6 as of yet". IPv6-deployment is a sad topic in 
> Switzerland, as only some smaller, witty ISPs are fully supporting 
> IPv6. Swisscom (the biggest?) is now starting to deploy 6rd(!) to private households.

That's really unfair.

The 6rd solution works very well and there are no complaints. If you have a "Centro" CPE you can enable IPv6 by yourself in the customer area on our website.
Furthermore the deployment started more than one year ago and already at that time any 6rd-compliant CPE was working.

As far as I know, all our internet services now provide IPv6 if requested by the customer (except the mobile network, but we're working on it as well).

Unfortunately, as any big provider, we are dependent on the IPv6-compliance of the hardware we use (if you're big, that's a lot of different vendors and equipment ...), and since we don't develop ourselves the code for our network hardware, we are often not as fast as we would like to.

Guillaume (Network Engineer at Swisscom)