6PE
6PE enables communication between isolated IPv6 networks over an IPv4 backbone network.
6PE adds labels to the IPv6 routing information about customer networks and advertises the information into the IPv4 backbone network over internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) sessions. IPv6 packets are labeled and forwarded over tunnels on the backbone network. The tunnels can be GRE tunnels or MPLS LSPs.
Figure 82: Network diagram
6PE is a highly efficient solution. When an ISP wants to utilize the existing IPv4/MPLS network to provide IPv6 traffic switching, it only needs to upgrade the PE routers. In addition, the operation risk of 6PE is very low. For more information about 6PE, see Layer 3—IP Routing Configuration Guide.