Posted on May 7th, 2011Hurricane Electric, a major collocation provider, made it public on Thursday that the company has expanded its presence to Equinix Paris Exchange.
This expansion is projected to bring greater efficiencies to Hurricane Electric in areas like load balancing, congestion management and fault tolerance. Furthermore, Equinix customers can now get access of Hurricane Electric’s worldwide internet backbone.
“Hurricane Electric is excited to connect to the Equinix Paris Exchange,” said Martin Levy, director of IPv6 strategy at Hurricane Electric. “Adding this exchange to our global network will improve our connectivity in the Greater Paris metro area and France. Hurricane Electric’s global footprint through the exchange will give customers the geographic reach and extended IPv6 functionality they are demanding.”
This trend of global expansion at Hurricane can be traced back to expansions that took place last year, like Comfluent expanded to Denver, Equinix in Singapore, PhoenixNAP, The Northwest Access Exchange made its presence in Portland, Oregon, and Standard Connection arrived in Toronto.
Some of the complementary services offered by Hurricane electric are free IPv6 certification, DNS services and tunnel broker service.
To make its presence felt, the company created a new department dealing with professional services, whose aim is to help businesses and enterprises to make a smooth and cost effective transition to IPv6.
Hurricane Electric is technologically ahead of its time and its networks. IPv4 and IPv6, work on connection speeds greater than 10 Gbps.
The company is truly global in the sense that it has maintained a presence in 45 main exchange points and is connected to some 1700 networks.
Hurricane Electric uses durable fiber optic technology and uses multiple surplus paths, to tackle any unfortunate events and to guarantee flow of services at all time. Four such paths are used in crossing North America, and two separate routes are established between US and Europe.
The company also maintains two fully owned data centers situated in Fremont, California.