Any ISP providing /48 or /56 IPv6 blocks in India ?

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Tachyon Broadband
Is there any ISP in India that supports Prefix Delegation of /56 and smaller routed subnets ?

I used to have a tunnel from Hurricane Electric for a routed /48 prefix, however since the last 2 days the latency is sky high : above 320ms (used to be within 120 uptil now), hence direly need IPv6 now.

Router is pfSense. /56 will be carved into 16 chunks of /60 for my extended family.
 
Does Airtel offer IPv6 to customers who specifically ask for it (I am okay with paying extra for a static IPv4 + dyanamic IPv6 block)
 
A /64 PD gives 2^64 addresses on a LAN segment. Why would any home/family user need more? Anyway I am not sure if Airtel or TPBB offer a /48 or /56 unless you take a biz broadband or leased line.
 


Airtel provides /64, which should be more than enough.
No its not.

Stuff like SLAAC expects you to configure a minimum of /64 for each network and will not work with prefixes smaller than this.

If your isp is giving you a single /64, That means you cant use it if you have any vlans. A /60 or a /56 will give you a way to properly divide it up into chunks of /64 and assign it to your networks. IPv6 BCOP also suggests a minimum of /60 or /56 for residential and /48 for commerical connections but whos listening? Everyone just seems to be busy in screwing this up.
 
While you won't run out of addresses with a /64, a /48 or /56 PD or mask is useful if you want to subnet your network as the OP wants to do for his family devices. I think it's better if he talks to Airtel, TPBB or any ISP directly because from what I know they provide only a /64 to home connections. Heck that has plenty of IP addresses for a family and much more.
 

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