I run part of Meraki Product Management that includes MX. We agree (PM / Eng teams) with everyone on this list that we need IPv6 and we need it yesterday! There is nothing sinister about the delay. It isn't a hardware limitation, nor a Cisco ploy to drive a wedge between Meraki and Enterprise Networking products. In fact, we have engineers working on IPv6 right now and we are in the process of formulating an accurate roadmap. I believe we are within 3-6 months window for being able to articulate what IPv6 features will be available when. What is taking us this long? When I launched MX with 2 engineers 8 years ago, we were the little engine that could. One strategy we adopted was to "fit the use-case", not to build generic features. Well, in some instances, we overfitted some of those use-cases that created technical debt. We had no clue that we had to worry about it. If someone came to me in 2011 and said you'll sell 1M MX in the next 8 years, I would have asked which psychedelic drug there were on. But it happened! We are energetically trying to redo some of our earlier decisions (network objects, n uplinks, no-nat, full support for BGP...are some highlights from our infinitely long to-do list). None of the above is an excuse, but I wanted to shine the light of transparency on our thought process. To remain a strong (we are in fact 14K customers strong) SD-WAN provider, we have to put IPv6 behind us... and we will. Thanks, Daghan.
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