Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone and a colocation provider, 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 fibre-optic topology and has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the US 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.

“This milestone reached by Hurricane demonstrates the company’s commitment to growing its global Internet infrastructure,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric. “Our network expansion is part of Hurricane Electric’s strategic plan to remain ahead of IPv6 growth as global IPv6 traffic is currently increasing and will continue to rise.”