* Posts by Andy Davidson

2 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2007

Ready or not, IPv6 is coming

Andy Davidson
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v6 in two hours.

Hi,

Google getting front to back support in 18 calendar months is impressive, but people will smaller infrastructures will be fine. I got it rolled out across our backbone in 2 hours, and our systems team are rolling out v6 support to our services in turn. We have a new rule that any new services need to be available via dual stack. It will take us 3 months to fully roll out v6 support everywhere.

T-Mobile terminates Truphone

Andy Davidson

Interconnect

Lou - the interconnect fee is terribly important.

If I am a BT Customer and you are a cable customer, and I call you, BT charge me some money for the phone call. Whether I pay money because I call you using minutes from an inclusive plan, or they charge me some money based on the duration of the call, they bill me. Some of that money is used to pay for the infrastructure that carries the call across the BT network, and some of that money is used to pay your cable telco based on the costs of carrying the call across their network to you.

If BT didn't need to pay your cable company, then the cable company would need to pay to carry the call that BT are making revenue on, across their network, for no money at all.