On 2/1/2011 8:53 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
Honestly, if you can't get native wholesale IP, you are buying from the wrong carriers.
I agree. I did up the $5 million budget to light dwdm ring with 8x10GE to Dallas where I could connect to any provider I wanted, but it was unfortunately declined.
However, that's not the point. The point is that IPv6 routing paths through the largest networks are not the same as IPv4 routing paths. There are still many unoptimized routes and even a lack of peering. General latency and bandwidth availability for IPv6 is a QOS nightmare compared to IPv4.
The weirdest one I came across is that, at one point, I had the best connectivity with limelight (for netflix streams) by sending packets out L3, and having them return via a HE tunnel. It was, of course, well below IPv4 standards.
Jack
