Comcast: We will meet our IPv6 deadline
Comcast says it will meet its 2012 deadline of transitioning its network to support IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications schedule. The ISP is halfway through a nine-month public trial of IPv6 that has attracted 7,000 of its business and residential customers nationwide.
Comcast will reach another milestone in its IPv6 trial this week, when it releases open source code that will allow home gateways to translate between IPv6 and the current standard, known as IPv4.
Comcast also says it will soon begin the next phase of its trial, which involves running IPv6 and IPv4 side-by-side in what’s called a dual-stack configuration for the cable industry telecommunication standards known as DOCSIS.