Seven years of IPv6 in production: Lessons from one million broadband subscribers

Guest Post: IPv6 deployment is often described as a protocol upgrade.

The short version

• In reality, operating IPv6 at broadband scale is a test of subscriber management, DHCP, CPE interoperability, observability, and operational processes.
• Over seven years, WorldLink Communications grew to more than one million dual-stack subscribers, with around 70% of traffic now carried over IPv6.
• Here are the lessons that mattered most.

What happened

Seven years of running IPoE broadband in Nepal, and the outage that taught us more than any lab ever did. The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is usually presented as a protocol upgrade.

Why it matters

You enable the address family, you advertise a prefix, you ping something, you move on.

Summary by Nerd News Network. Read the full article at APNIC Blog via the links above and below.