Deutsche Telekom has quietly rolled out IPv6 for all of...
Deutsche Telekom has quietly rolled out IPv6 for all of its new customers signing up to its Internet Protocol network access service, a DT executive said at the German IPv6 Summit in Potsdam on Wednesday. Several tens of thousands of…
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customers are now IPv6 customers, said Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, managing director of technology. Enterprise customers have been offered IPv6 since March 2012. The company hasn’t publicly promoted the new service, Jacobfeuerborn said, because it’s “no new product.” For customers, he said, there should no visible change. The migration to the new IP addresses was an infrastructure issue and necessary to prepare future products and service, said Jacobfeuerborn. He said next steps are already under way, with mobile IPv6 being launched next year. Over time, DT wants to eliminate the current dual-stack technology, but a standard to allow v4-addressing in the v6-only environment is still being finalized at the Internet Engineering Task Force. The portion of IPv6 traffic globally topped 1 percent last week, double that of six month ago, and experts expect it to reach 10 percent by 2015.