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When will IPV6 be available on Cogeco?

Before I start a lot of work to esnure that I am IPV6 compatible (I am currently using HE tunnelbroker and also have a /64 from OVH for a dedicated server), I wanted to ask when IPV6 will be available on Cogeco business services?

I concur with this question. In today's Internet, IPv6 is becoming increasingly essential and network engineers and other operational people know this. The difficulty is that marketing and other business-oriented positions have difficulty assessing why its needed when "v4 is more economical and just works" while v6 implementation is seen as an unnecessary expense when things like NAT444/Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) can be done on access networks.

In reality CGN and other v4-preservation measures are toxic and must not be pursued and are in fact toxic to an open Internet.

So I echo this question: When can we expect v6 to be implemented on Cogeco's network edge? If there's no data on this, can we at least see a plan roadmap and/or something that isn't vague?
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ANd let me add that when I am working with multiple brands and customers, an IPV6 /48 (free for the asking from tunnelbroker.net) is a lot easier to use than Cogeco's giving me an IPV4 /29 (5 addresses at best.)

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Considering the lack of activity on this thread, IPv6 seems not to be a technology that the majority of even technical people on this forum are not interested in and this is quite a sad fact. This will only create panic when there is no longer a choice to "put it off" anymore. There is still time for network operators to be in active communication with their users and customers and create dual stacking plans and transition to those plans instead of having to rush something last minute.

At this point in time, I think speeds really are sufficient (outside of some cases of poor infrastructure or equipment/cables), now focus needs to be shifted to new technologies... IPv6, jumbo packets, stuff that hasn't changed for over 20 years. Change needs to happen before it is forced upon Cogeco where it will have no choice anymore.

I feel an official response on this matter isn't a matter of choice for Cogeco, it's a matter of necessity. At the moment with lack of official response, it reads to me like Cogeco has no plans which seems to be a widespread plague among a lot of network operators where just increasing speeds seems to be sufficient to call "innovation".
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