6VPE is a tunneling technology that makes use of MPLS tunnels to transport IPv6 prefixes over an IPv4 infrastructure.

Customers connected to 6VPE can run IPv6 or IPv4.

On a PE router, if the MP-BGP next hop is an IPv4 address, a mapped IPv6-compliant address will be used.

6VPE implements its own VPN-IPv6 address family and is a replacement for MP-BGP.