Hurricane Electric, the world’s largest IPv6-native Internet backbone, continues to expand its global network with the opening of its first Hawaiian Point of Presence (PoP) at DRFortress; in Honolulu.

The largest datacentre and cloud services provider operating in Hawaii, DRFortress is also the only carrier-neutral datacentre in the state. As the most advanced commercial colocation facility in the region, DRFortress is the primary peering point in Hawaii for major wireline and wireless carriers, enterprises, cable companies, and ISPs. The company’s datacentre houses the densest concentration of IP carriers in Hawaii and the facility plays a vital role as the only commercial Internet Exchange hub in the state. Due to its strategic location within the Oceania region, DRFortress offers connectivity services to clients within its datacentre, throughout Hawaii and beyond.

“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. “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.”