Hurricane Electric establishes a second PoP in Georgia offering customers of Colo Atl increased bandwidth for IPv4 and IPv6 services
ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, announced today a new Point-of-Presence (PoP) at Colo Atl, Atlanta’s premier colocation facility located at 55 Marietta Street, Suites 570 & 800, Atlanta, GA 30303. Colo Atl is a SSAE 16 certified facility.
“We are thrilled to continue building our relationship with the facility and bringing next generation IP services to the business community in Atlanta, Georgia.”
Colo Atl was established over ten years ago and offers expert colocation services, which now includes expanded access to Hurricane’s robust Internet backbone. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to 80 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 3,500 different networks. Now live with its second PoP at Colo Atl, customers of the facility will now have access to Hurricane Electric’s rich global network through 100GE (100 gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 gigabit Ethernet), GigE (1 gigabit Ethernet) and 100BaseT network connections. All of Hurricane Electric’s core nodes have 100 Gbps or multiple 10 Gbps (OC-192 / STM-64) connections.
“Each of our core routers has a combination of backbone circuits, exchange ports, and private peering connections, benefits now made available to customers of Colo Atl,” said Mike Leber, President, Hurricane Electric. “We are thrilled to continue building our relationship with the facility and bringing next generation IP services to the business community in Atlanta, Georgia.”
About Hurricane Electric
Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric operates its own global IPv4 and IPv6 network and is considered the largest IPv6 backbone in the world as measured by number of networks connected. Within its global network, Hurricane Electric is connected to 80 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 3,500 different networks. Employing a resilient fiber-optic topology, Hurricane Electric has no less than four redundant paths crossing North America, two separate paths between the U.S. and Europe, and rings in Europe and Asia. Hurricane Electric offers IPv4 and IPv6 transit solutions over the same connection at speeds including 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps Ethernet.
For more information on Hurricane Electric, please visit http://www.he.net.
