Vendor help is needed to get more cable broadband-connected devices ready for...
Vendor help is needed to get more cable broadband-connected devices ready for longer Internet Protocol addresses, Comcast’s chief IPv6 architect said. The approximately 5 percent of Comcast users now ready for IPv6 could rise “dramatically if vendors act to enable…
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IPv6 by default in software updates for existing devices and in newly shipping devices,” John Brzozowski wrote. “There is a significant opportunity for consumer electronics companies, including home networking equipment vendors, to improve IPv6 deployment by shipping IPv6-capable devices and enabling IPv6 by default.” Comcast made “hundreds of thousands” of customers IPv6-ready ahead of Wednesday’s World IPv6 Launch, Brzozowski said. IPv6 is enabled on more than a third of the operator’s broadband network in areas served by Arris cable modem termination systems, he said. All Arris CMTS systems will be ready “in a few months,” at which point there will be work on Comcast’s Cisco CMTS platform, Brzozowski wrote Monday on the operator’s blog (http://xrl.us/bnab2s). “In parallel, we plan to continue to work with cable modem and home router vendors to deploy IPv6-capable firmware to more customer devices."