Tag: Comcast

Comcast Residential IPv6 Deployment Pilot

Comcast, long active in the IPv6 arena have announced that they will be doing a native residential IPv6 deployment in Pleasanton, CA, on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area, which will be a dual-stacked, native v4/v6 deployment with no NAT.

This is a much needed move to try and break the deadlock that seems to have been holding back wide scale v6 deployment in mass market broadband providers. Apart from isolated islands of activity such as XS4ALL‘s pioneering work in the Netherlands, v6 deployment has largely been available only as an option from providers focused on the tech savvy user (such as A&A in the UK).

Sure, it’s a limited trial, and initially aimed at single devices only (i.e. one device connected directly to the cable modem), but it’s a start, and there’s plans to expand this as experience is gained.

Read these good blog articles from Comcast’s John Brzozowski and Jason Livingood about the deployment and it’s aims.

Comcast-NBCU Deal Approved

Yesterday, the FCC approved Comcast‘s proposed purchase of the controlling stake in NBC Universal, but with some conditions – such as giving up the Board position (and control) in online video service Hulu, despite still owning a good share of it, along with other regulatory controls – limits on exclusivity of NBCU produced content and how it should operate according to the FCC’s Open Internet Principles – to try and keep a rein on what the merged entity can and cannot do, to try and retain a reasonably level playing field in the market (to the relief of other cable operators, online video distributors).

It looks like quite the regulatory straitjacket, which has no doubt also cost public money to develop, and will cost more to enforce.

Despite this, all I can hear in the back of my mind is the “thud, thud, thud” of the Stay Puft Marshmallow man‘s footsteps, coming to crush anything in it’s way under it’s squishy feet.