On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 3:25 PM, James Jun <ja...@towardex.com> wrote:
> > If you want choices in your transit providers, you should get a transport > circuit (dark, wave or EPL) to a nearby carrier hotel/data center. Once > you do that, you will suddenly find that virtually almost everyone in the > competitive IP transit market will provide you with dual-stacked IPv4/IPv6 > service. > The future is here, but it isn't evenly distributed yet. I'm in North America, but there are no IXPs in my *state*, let alone in my *continent* -- from an undersea fiber perspective. There is no truly competitive IP transit market within Alaska that I am aware of. Would love to be proved wrong. Heck, GCI and ACS (the two providers with such fiber) only directly peered a handful of years ago. > If you are buying DIA circuit from some $isp to your rural location that > you call "head-end" and are expecting to receive a competitive service, > and support for IPv6, well, then your expectations are either unreasonable, > ignorant or both. > Interestingly both statewide providers *do* provide both IPv4 and IPv6 peering. The trick is to find a spot where there's true price competition. The 3 largest statewide ISPs have fiber that meets a mere three city blocks from one of my POPs, but there's no allowable IX. I'm looking at you, AT&T. -- Jeremy Austin Whitestone Power & Communications, Alaska
