Verizon FiOS → Re: IPv6

Ah no. Buzz words are sexy (for lack of better description). IPv6 is just geeky/nerdy.

IPv6, VHDL, Asynchronous I/O, verilog , and segmentation fault are examples that will never be buzz words.

Regardless FIOS marketing will target the common upscale home (>99% of their customers) , not that techies or 14 year old script kiddies/hackers (1%) are ignored but they are very small number of customers.

Just wait for Comcast to start running ads about how Verizon customers might lose access to websites because of Verizon's out of date network doesn't support the new internet 6, only the old internet 4. Comcast is 2 better, that's all customers need to know before they start complaining to Verizon.

What?! Apart from IPv6, which is of this discussion, none of what you listed are even related in this context; one of them is even a negative! We're not talking about programming languages or low level stuff, we're talking about the oh-so-magical "Internet." Does the average consumer know or care how it works? No, of course not. But does the average consumer want the very best? Yes.

So called "buzz words" are very market-specific. To the random person who isn't "nerdy/geeky", IPv6 being a buzz word now could be compared to LTE when Verizon started marketing it a few years back. Chances any random person even knows what LTE stands for? Very low. Chances that people understand a wireless network with LTE is better than a 3G network? Extremely high! Why? Because it was made into a buzz word.

There is no reason why IPv6 can't be a buzz word. Ad campaigns run by big companies make the buzz words; they're not naturally "buzzy." Advertisements are extremely powerful when done correctly; IPv6 could most certainly be marketed to the average (non "geeky/nerdy," in your words) consumer.

Comcast could easily run an ad campaign set out to, at a high level, educate people on what IPv6 is, why its important, and how its required for the Internet's future. Companies do stuff like this all the time! If they did, they could easily put Verizon into negative light, pressuring them to step up their game. Honestly, I'm as equally surprised that Comcast hasn't done this yet as I am that Verizon still lacks IPv6 support on FiOS! It seems like something they'd try to do.Unfortunately, this is the million-dollar question at this point. Verizon refuses to discuss this, despite the "Americas most advanced fiber optic network" claims and past estimates that IPv6 would be rolled out already. A better question than why the lack of IPv6 support is why they won't even discuss IPv6 in the first place.