(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider SoftLayer Technologies (www.softlayer.com) announced on Tuesday it is now offering native IPv6 support across all its data centers in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC.
The announcement follows SoftLayer’s announcement last month that it completed a Statement on Auditing Standards Number 70 Type II audit and evaluation of all its processes and systems, reassuring customers of the company’s high standards and practices.
Using 128-bit rather than 32-bit addresses, IPv6 enables a much greater range of IP addresses, and, according to SoftLayer’s announcement, enables greater flexibility in allocating addresses and routing traffic, as well as improves routing and network configurations.
Developers intend for IPv6 to eventually replace the IPv4 standard, with both coexisting over a multi-year transition period.
By offering IPv6 support, SoftLayer has completely integrated IPv6 address ordering and management into the customer portal and API.
Dedicated hosting provider The Planet and telecommunications provider NTT America announced plans to begin offering IPv6 support in March, but has yet to launch support for the product.
“SoftLayer is proud to bring this additional functionality to its customers, ahead of the adoption curve,” says Ric Moseley, SoftLayer vice president of engineering. “While the rollout and implementation of IPv6 throughout the industry is still in its early stages, it will be a requisite for our customers, and we want them to be able to begin benefitting from it now.”
In addition to the IPv6 rollout, SoftLayer has increased connectivity to its Washington, DC and Seattle data centers bringing the SoftLayer’s total backbone network capacity to 200Gbps.
The company has also added 10Gbps links to the Equinix Peering Fabric in Ashburn and Dallas to pick up local peers, and a new flow control platform for optimizing border gateway protocol tables.
Plano, Texas-based SoftLayer provides web hosting and virtualized data center services to customers around the world from facilities located in Dallas, Seattle, and Washington, DC.
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