Hurricane Electric Connects To 100 Different Internet Exchanges
The company is the first internet backbone in the world to accomplish the feat.
Hurricane Electric has announced that it has become the first Internet backbone in the world to connect to over 100 unique Internet exchanges.
As an early leader in the switch to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), Hurricane Electric now runs the largest IPv6 network on the planet and has been at the forefront of providing high-speed Internet connectivity to organizations throughout the world using: 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 gigabit Ethernet), and GigE (1 gigabit Ethernet) connections. Thanks to these 100 different exchange connections and private interconnects with other major networks, Hurricane Electric has improved connectivity in each geographic region and as a result, Hurricane Electric customers have been able to experience increased throughput, reduced latency and improved reliability. In addition, customers have also had the benefit of directly exchanging IP traffic, or “peering,” with Hurricane Electric’s global Internet backbone as well improved fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management infrastructure capabilities in the delivery of next generation IP services.