Hurricane Electric's global network map
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Colocation provider Hurricane Electric announced on Thursday it has connected to NIX.CZ, the Czech Republic’s largest Internet exchange.
This new connection will expand Hurricane Electric’s network reach in Europe and provide customers of NIX.CZ with greater bandwidth, reduced latency and improved quality of service.
The move also enables Hurricane Electric to improve fault tolerance, load balancing and congestion management infrastructure capabilities for the delivery of IPv6 access services.
“With this new connection, Hurricane Electric is strengthening its commitment to the Central European market, whose demand for high-quality IPv6 connectivity is growing rapidly,” said Martin Levy, Hurricane Electric’s director of IPv6 strategy. “This new connection will allow Hurricane Electric to continue its aggressive global expansion while delivering next-generation IP access.”
In November, Hurricane Electric partnered with NIX.CZ to launch Hurricane Electric’d IPv6 certification program in Czech. Hurricane Electric’s global Internet backbone is one of the few that is IPv6-native and does not rely on internal tunnels for IPv6 connectivity.
Since launching its IPv6 network last year, Hurricane Electric has been offering IPv6 as a core service with every customer provided IPv6 connectivity, as well as classic IPv4 connectivity. Hurricane Electric connects to more than 1,600 associated IPv6 backbones.
Hurricane Electric’s global network connects to 50 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 2,000 different networks.
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Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of web hosting and IT-related issues facing the industry on the WHIR website, as well the print version of the WHIR magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Justin_theWHIR.
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