Re: Automatic tunnels

["JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>]

I don't think most of the ISPs will do it with just a PC. Most of them still don't believe in IPv6, so is just a good excuse for
them (they will tell you that is still not well supported by the router vendors). Most of the cost anyway is training the people and
maintaining the service (including the customers hot line).

Its clear, how many TBs exist around the world versus ISPs ?

But may be there are other reasons that I didn't cached ?

Regards,
Jordi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <itojun@iijlab.net>
To: "JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <jordi.palet@consulintel.es>
Cc: <v6ops@ops.ietf.org>
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: Automatic tunnels


> >The problem is that I don't think most of the ISPs will invest in
> >offering tunnel services, because they will cost almost the same
> >as providing native service, with the only difference of the customer
> >CPE and the BAS in case of xDSL or similar services. May be some
> >will start with tunnels until they upgrade their BAS, and then will
> >ask their customers to pay an additional fee for moving to a native
> >service. Is a possible business model, but as said, who knows.
>
> we at IIJ use PC with BSD operating system for terminating our
> tunnelling service customers.  required investment is minimal, and 1
> PC can terminate > 10000 tunnels if you want to (we don't do 10000,
> but freenet6 does it).  it is an added value to our IPv4 service (it
> will look more tasty).  other japanese ISPs are doing similar things.
> so i guess i disagree with you on "most of the ISPs won't invest on
> tunnel service".
>
> itojun
>

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