Pacific Business News features Hurricane Electric’s new exchange point with Honolulu’s DRFortress.

Mainland company brings high-speed internet to Hawaii

Hurricane Electric, a California-based company, has teamed up with Honolulu’s DRFortress to bring high-speed internet to the state.
DRFortress will be Hurricane Electric’s first point of presence, an access point in Hawaii to the rest of the Internet.
DRFortress will now have access to Hurricane Electric’s global network.

The new exchange point will provide customers of DRFortress access to Hurricane Electric’s network. Customers will also have the opportunity to exchange IP traffic, or “peer,” with Hurricane Electric’s global network. The California company has more than 120 major exchange points and exchanges with more than 5,000 different networks.
“This new Point of Presence opens a range of exciting opportunities for Hurricane Electric, as Hawaii is at the nexus of submarine cables in the Pacific,” said Mike Leber, president of Hurricane Electric in a press release. “We’re delighted that this latest expansion will bring our reliable high-speed IP transit to yet another growing market in the Asia-Pac region. Not only will this be extremely beneficial to customers of DRFortress, but will provide Hurricane Electric with a more direct path to the Pacific Islands.”
DR Fortress is the only carrier-neutral data center in the state.
Hawaii is also set to get a much needed broadband boost from a new undersea cable, the Moana Cable, which will link the Islands with New Zealand, scheduled to be completed in 2018.
At the beginning of this year, Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks signed a turnkey contract with Bluesky Pacific Group to roll out the new submarine cable, which will span over 6,000 miles across the Pacific.

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