New IPv6 Trial announced

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Plusnet have announced a new IPv6 trial - reported by ISPReview here 

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As per the title.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/11/broadband-isp-plusnet-uk-prep-new-ipv6-technical-trial...

Brian

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"I was on the original trial, I wonder if you can get on this one

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Thanks that is interesting.

It is not clear from ISPr if PN want some volunteers.

If they do I would be happy to take part. 🙂

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From the sound of it the trial is limited to a total of 20 staff and tame customers and 2 MSEs, for a period of 3 months - so not a very big trial!

I'm unsure what MSEs are - Medium Small Enterprise? If so seems daft as they are closing business accounts. If not I have no idea what a MSE is. But anyway there will be 2 of them in the trial.

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Hi @corringham 

Have a look at:

https://kitz.co.uk/adsl/BTwholesale_network.htm

MSE - Multi Server Edge.

and

https://kitz.co.uk/adsl/MSE_BRAS.htm

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@RichardB thanks for the info. I was trained in telecoms technology 40 years ago - but things like MSEs hadn't been invented then!

Anyway, the two MSEs are in Chesterfield and Sheffield - so that will restrict the location of the trial participants. 

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Moderator's note(s):

Threads merged.

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@corringham wrote:

I'm unsure what MSEs are - Medium Small Enterprise? If so seems daft as they are closing business accounts. If not I have no idea what a MSE is. But anyway there will be 2 of them in the trial.

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And such is the danger of using ambiguous TLAs rather than spelling out the Three Letter Abbreviation.

I too read that statement as Medium Small Enterprise - but did not connect to the irony of business account closures!

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@bmc wrote:

As per the title.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/11/broadband-isp-plusnet-uk-prep-new-ipv6-technical-trial...

Brian

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That's great news - thanks for spotting/sharing Brian.

I (and my IPv6 cat feeder!) was on the original trial and would be very keen to support this one too.

Edit: Ah, I see from the slides that the trial would initially be focused on 'Low Touch' side of the network which given I've got a static IPv4 address would rule me out. Great news never the less, and I hope it goes well!

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For those interested in network tech , the link to the presentation is below

https://www.ipv6.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/04_Plusnet_IPv6_update_DaveTomlinson.pdf

One takeaway from this presentation is that this forum is IPv6 enabled, which has been suspected for by some for a while 😉

A question is why Plusnet's rekindled interest in IPv6 now ?

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@Protech wrote:

One takeaway from this presentation is that this forum is IPv6 enabled, which has been suspected for by some for a while 😉

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Only by virtue of it being fronted by a Lithium CDN though so it is really someone else's IPv6 that is being used! (Actually, to be fair for all I know the forum backend might support IPv6 too so I shouldn't jump to conclusions.)

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A question is why Plusnet's rekindled interest in IPv6 now ?

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For nearly all networks, particularly ISPs, it has always been a question of when and not if so perhaps it is just the usual drivers coming to a head - IPv4 exhaustion, cost of CG-NAT and other workarounds, rest of the world migrating etc.

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I too was on the original IPv6 trial and would be happy to take part again.

I am speculating that there is a financial reason behind any new trial.

Maybe establishing a cost for the move to IPv6 / IPv4 that can be compared with the cost of remaining IPv4 only.

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@Townman 

Might MSE stand for 'Microsoft Systems Engineer'? I suspect they are two of the current 'super users' we have.

Dan

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@Dan_the_Van  Close but it was MCSE, unless there's an uncertified qualification.

Wonder if my SFT III certificate will do.................