Hurricane Electric recently connected to over 2,000 IPv6 networks, an event featured in The WHIR. From the article:
Colocation hosting and Internet backbone provider Hurricane Electric announced on Thursday that it is the first Internet backbone to connect to over 2,000 IPv6 networks.
This announcement comes a few months after Hurricane Electric added new POPs in Milano, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
Hurricane Electric says that research presented at the International Measurement Conference last year by the University of California shows that Hurricane Electric is the most dominant Autonomous System in the global IPv6 transit topology.
The research finds that between 2011 and 2012 no other AS was added to IPv6 routing paths as frequently and consistently at Hurricane Electric.
Hurricane Electric offers IPv6 as a core service so every customer is provided IPv6 connectivity as well as IPv4 connectivity, and it has been offering IPv6 since 2001 when it was first deployed at HE.
“Our early investment in IPv6 is paying off not only for Hurricane Electric, but also for our customers around the world,” Mike Leber, president of Hurricane Electric said in a statement. “Given the depletion of the IPv4address space, we expect continued strong growth in demand for IPv6 connectivity and services.”
Read the full article at The WHIR.
