Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Internode is inviting its tech-savvy ADSL customers to participate in what it says will be an Australia-first technical trial of IPv6 running natively on its national ADSL broadband network.
Internode has operated a native IPv6 backbone since the middle of 2008, with routers running in 'dual stack' mode, allowing it to provide concurrent IPv4 and IPv6 services. However, to date, the only customers who could use IPv6 were those with a direct ethernet connection to Internode's network or those able to undertake the complex configuration required to 'tunnel' IPv6 through an IPv4 connection.
Internodes says the trial is intended for technically experienced customers who are familiar with IPv6, and it expects any customers participating in the trial to be comfortable with IPv6 configuration and to provide feedback on the operation of the service, "in order to assist Internode to deliver its full production-grade IPv6 service offering by mid 2010."
Managing director Simon Hackett said: "Our objective is to ensure that Internode has the most experience of any Australian broadband provider with the operation and support of native IPv6. By the time IPv6 becomes a necessary part of connecting new users to the Internet, Internode will offer the very best 'production' IPv6 service available in Australia. At that point, for all customers, IPv6 will 'just work'."
However a major limitation at present is that only a small number of consumer ADSL routers available in Australia support IPv6. Internode recommends the Cisco 877 ADSL router running IOS 12.4 or above, or using an ADSL router placed into 'bridge' mode with a PPPoE based IPv6 connection directly from a personal computer. IPv6 support is built into current versions of Macintosh OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux.
Internode says it is working with various manufacturers of ADSL2+ routers to encourage them to support native IPv6 access, and it expects to announce the availability of IPv6 firmware support for a variety of ADSL2+ routers during the course of the trial.
According to Hackett, "There has historically been a 'chicken and egg' problem with IPv6, where ADSL router vendors have not supported IPv6 because no network was ready to run IPv6, and vice versa. We have broken that impasse – and we invite any further ADSL2+ router vendors with IPv6 capability to test those routers on our network and prove their own IPv6 readiness."
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