New Point-of-Presence will meet the growing demand for Internet bandwidth in Latin America and the Caribbean
MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fremont, California-based Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, today announced that it has added a second Point of Presence (PoP) in Miami at iM Miami’s downtown data center. Located at 36 NE 2nd Street, iM Miami, also known as Interconnect Miami (www.imintegrated.com), occupies the 5th floor of the Digital Realty building.
“Hurricane Electric is delighted to add its second PoP in Miami, as this location fits nicely into our overall global expansion plans”
Operating in downtown Miami with its own dark fiber metro loop, iM is carrier-neutral and heavily focused on expanding its interconnection with Latin America and the Caribbean. With 11,000 square feet of colocation space, the facility is housed within a Category 5 Hurricane-rated building and features indoor generator and fuel tank locations as well as excellent infrastructure diversity for all critical systems. Connected to multiple peering exchanges and dozens of carriers, iM Miami is a premiere location for area businesses and carriers to house their critical IT infrastructure, ensuring access to robust connectivity options.
With the addition of Hurricane Electric’s newest PoP, customers of iM and others at 36 NE 2nd Street will now have the option for increased network capacity through 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 gigabit Ethernet), GigE (1 gigabit Ethernet) connections. Additionally, these customers now have the opportunity to exchange IP traffic, or “peer,” with Hurricane Electric’s comprehensive global network.
“Hurricane Electric is delighted to add its second PoP in Miami, as this location fits nicely into our overall global expansion plans,” said Mike Leber, President of Hurricane Electric. “The new PoP will enable Hurricane Electric to meet the rising demand for greater Internet bandwidth in the LatAM market.”
In February, Hurricane Electric was named to CRN’s 2015 Data Center 100 as one of the top twenty Infrastructure Providers.
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 100 major exchange points and exchanges traffic directly with more than 4,000 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://he.net.
About iM
iM provides a comprehensive suite of related IT infrastructure solutions, including colocation at its metro facilities located in Miami, London, Washington DC and San Francisco; as well as innovative modular colocation-on-demand offerings. iM also manufactures modular datacenter and colocation facilities based on unique designs that provide flexibility and scalability at competitive price points. iM’s solutions include metro dark fiber and peering at our LatAM and Caribbean interconnection hub in Miami.
Additional information can be found at http://www.imintegrated.com.
