Hurricane Electric’s Internet Backbone Now Circles The Earth
Latest milestone will enable the world’s largest IPv6 backbone to get ahead of IPv6 growth as global IPv6 traffic continues to increase.
Hurricane Electric has announced that its global Internet backbone now circumnavigates the globe, enabling lower latency and increased performance between European and Asian networks, and a redundant path to get to Asia from Europe and vice versa.
Hurricane Electric employs a resilient fiber-optic topology and has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the U.S. and Europe, and rings in Europe and Asia. Having first deployed IPv6 in 2001, Hurricane Electric offers IPv6 as a core service; every customer is provided IPv6 connectivity as well as classic IPv4 connectivity.