IP transit provider Hurricane Electric opened its first point of presence (PoP) in Pennsylvania at the Equinix Philadelphia PH1 IBX Data Center located in Southeastern Pennsylvania.

This latest point of presence will offer tenants at the Equinix Philadelphia PH1 Data Center the opportunity to exchange IP traffic with Hurricane Electric’s network. Hurricane Electric has over 17,000 BGP sessions with over 5,800 different networks via more than 151 major exchange points and thousands of customer and private peering ports. The new Philadelphia PoP will also provide access to the company’s extensive IPv4 and IPv6 network through 100GE (100 Gigabit Ethernet), 10GE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) and GigE (1 Gigabit Ethernet) ports and as a result, both new and existing customers will be able to experience increased throughput, reduced latency and improved reliability.