Many of you will recall that I gave updates in 2015 and 2016 as we were launching IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack capabilities to our residential customers, first for standalone CPEs behind cable modems and later for dual-stack gateway modems.
This thread is intended to accomplish the same, specifically for Cox Business Internet customers.
The rollout will happen in phases, with phase 1 being the same as what we did for Residential - customer-managed CPE/routers behind cable modems. A near-future phase will be dual-stacking CBIG (Cox Business Internet Gateway) devices, while another hopefully near-future phase will be providing dual-stack capability for Cox Fiber Internet (CFI) customers.
In addition, this phase is specifically "dynamic DHCPv6" as opposed to reserved DHCPv6 or statically-assigned IPv6 addressing.
So with that being said - Our Middle Georgia market is slated to go first, on 4/4/2017. I will post an update when that happens, to confirm. Remaining markets will follow GA, with a target to complete all markets by the end of May. More details to follow on that schedule.
This post is informational only; nothing is required of the customer. If your CPE and/or router requests IPv6, it will get it an address and a delegated-prefix of size /64, /60, or /56 depending on the request. This results in the device being "dual-stacked", and able to use either addressing protocol. If your CPE and/or router does not support IPv6 or does not request addressing, it will continue to operate in IPv4-only "single-stack" mode indefinitely.
For those who care, all addressing for Cox Business Internet customers will come from the 2001:579::/32 address block.
Happy to field questions as well.
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