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Oh wow. I dunno what you're doing where you have customers with 5M devices but that definitely sounds like a very good reason to want to get on IPv6!

Medical devices of some kind? Just guessing.



Couple different classes of customers - utilities are the existing (Electric/Gas/Water meters) and IoT (Sensors, Street Lights, Parking) are the up and coming.

Both of them lend themselves well to mesh networking application, and mesh networks, in which any one of the 5mm+ deployed devices might appear in any one of the 10,000+ network segments, and in which we just want to concatenate the MAC address and Network segment to get a network address (basically SLAAC) - really makes IPv6 a pretty good fit.


Neat! Sounds like a fun problem to work on.




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