Hurricane Electric’s President Mike Leber was recently interviewed for the San Jose Business Journal in an article titled “Fremont’s Hurricane at the center of IP storm”. From the article:
Over the next year, demand for more IP addresses is expected to explode as the number of computers, mobile devices and smart gadgets used worldwide rises above 1 trillion. One Silicon Valley data center is already prepared because it expanded its facility early.
Fremont’s Hurricane Electric upgraded its IP network, which will accommodate increasing user demand as bandwidth needs continue to grow.
This in turn translates to more customers for Hurricane. The company added 200,000 square feet in 2006 to make room for more servers, due to the anticipated switch over from IPv4 to IPv6, which is the newest system used to assign IP addresses. The IPv6 has more space for almost an unlimited number of addresses.
The company is connected to 52 major exchange points. It exchanges traffic directly with 2,100 different networks. It has four redundant paths crossing North America to go along with its fiber-optic lines in Europe and Asia.
“This is a high-growth market, and we need to ensure we have the necessary capacity, not just for this year and the next, but for many years down the road,” said Mike Leber, Hurricane Electric’s founder and CEO.
The 18-year-old company also offers customers a bulk rate to store and transmit data around the world. In most cases, Leber said, that is less expensive than centers that charge clients by how much data is transferred. It also can get a company up and running on its system in two days. Other data facilities can take 30 to 90 days, Leber said.
“That’s a difference that is big,” he said. “A high-tech startup doesn’t have 90 days. They need to go live now.”
Read the full article here at the Silicon Valley Business Journal.
