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Real-World SRv6 Deployments

SRv6 is in production at some of the world's largest networks. The following is a curated directory of publicly announced deployments, linking directly to the original announcements by the operators and vendors themselves.

Sources policy

Every entry links to the original public announcement (press release, blog post, or conference talk) by the operator or vendor. We do not reproduce proprietary details — click through to the source for full information.

By the numbers

How many organizations run SRv6, by region and sector, and how that compares with standards and vendor support: see the State of SRv6 2026 data report.

Telecom Operators

Asia Pacific

Operator Announcement Source
China Mobile (China) Claims the world's largest SRv6 backbone, built on G-SRv6 with cluster routers (600+ Tbps inter-provincial); G-SRv6 also used by MTN in South Africa — joint project with Huawei and MTN (WIC 2024)
China Mobile Henan (China) G-SRv6 single-stack (IPv6-only core carrying IPv4 inside IPv6) on the Kaifeng metro network: ~1.06M fiber broadband users and 6,798 enterprise lines; first prize, ICT China 2026 cases (Sept 2026, with Huawei)
Rakuten Mobile (Japan) SRv6 uSID IP transport network migration completed
Reliance Jio (India) Converged IP network adopting end-to-end SRv6
SoftBank (Japan) SRv6 commercial network completed; world's first SRv6 Flex-Algo on 5G
SoftBank (Japan) World's first SRv6 MUP on commercial 5G network

Europe

Operator Announcement Source
Iliad (Italy) Greenfield SRv6 5G-ready network launched
Swisscom (Switzerland) SRv6 uSID migration with in-situ performance measurement

Americas

Operator Announcement Source
Bell Canada SRv6 uSID deployment with P4 programmable edge
Boost Mobile (United States) Cloud-native SRv6 backbone in AWS — migrated from SR-MPLS/GRE to single SRv6 domain
Verizon (United States) "Simplifying the Network, the Journey to Unified Traffic Engineering with SRv6" — target of SRv6 in all domains with a single encapsulation and single TE policy, extending to host-based encapsulation (Upperside WC Paris 2026)
Telefonica VIVO (Brazil) Multi-vendor SRv6 uSID deployment
Telecom District (Mexico) The future of routing built on SRv6
Telecom District (Mexico) Driven by SRv6: Inside Telecom District's Network — segment-routing.net feature
CTX Reflector Cloud-native SRv6 enablement on AWS

Public Sector

Organization Announcement Source
Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands) National infrastructure agency backbone migrated from MPLS to SRv6 uSID end-to-end

Cloud & Technology Companies

Company Announcement Source
Meta SRv6-powered backbone networks — SRv6 TE in production on regional backbone rings (OCP Global Summit 2026)
Google Virgo AI fabric — SRv6 source routing for bare-metal customers (OCP Global Summit 2026)
Microsoft SRv6 powers Fairwater, the largest AI datacenter in the world (OCP Global Summit 2025)
OpenAI MRC: static SRv6 source routing on 100K+ GPU AI supercomputers (with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, NVIDIA)
Nebius AI cloud: SRv6 uSID L3VPN from DC frontend to WAN/peering, replacing VXLAN-EVPN/MPLS-SR stitching; SRv6 TE for firewall chaining; Cisco–Juniper uSID interop and VPP data plane (Upperside WC Paris 2026)
Nebius Building scalable AI cloud interconnects with SRv6 — end-to-end VPN and TE between virtual cloud and physical edge for GPU-cloud customers (@Scale: Networking 2026)
Alibaba Cloud Full-stack SRv6 on SONiC whitebox routers
LINE Corporation (Japan) SRv6 overlay for data center networking

Industry Overview

For a broader view of SRv6 deployment status across the industry:

Resource Description Source
IETF SRv6 Deployment Status Community-maintained IETF draft tracking global deployments
APNIC: SRv6 Deployed Use-Cases Overview of early commercial SRv6 deployments (2020)
segment-routing.net Community site with conference talks and deployment news

Further Reading