Questions for an ISP

[Guillaume.Leclanche at swisscom.com]

> -----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 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)