The Cisco MIPv6 implementation began with a research collaboration with Lancaster University and the porting of their MIPv6 implementation for Linux. Since this date, Cisco integrates the MIPv6 Home Agent support in a "Technology Preview" release that is available for experiment.

The feature is not offered yet in a commercial Cisco IOS release as Mobile IPv6 is still an immature protocol.

The Cisco IOS release of the protocol has been demonstrated at several events, e.g. at the Madrid IPv6 Summit, March 2002 and N+I Tokyo, July 2002. The configuration comprised a Cisco 2600 acting as Home Agent, the Mobile Node was a Compaq iPAQ running Linux, and the Correspondent Node was an AlphaServer running Tru64.

At the time of writing, the Cisco IOS release supports version 24 of the IETF draft specification. Based on Cisco IOS 12.2T release train, the Technology Preview works on Cisco 2600, 3600, 3700 and 7200 routers series.