Hurricane Electric’s President Mike Leber was recently interviewed for the San Jose Business Journal in an article titled “Fremont’s Hurricane at the center of IP storm”. From the article: Over the next year, demand for more IP addresses is expected to explode as the number of computers, mobile devices and smart gadgets used worldwide rises above 1 trillion. One Silicon Valley data center is already prepared because it expanded its facility early. Fremont’s Hurricane Electric […]
Datacenter Dynamics recently interviewed Hurricane Electric’s Martin Levy about how their new NIX.CZ will boost their IPv6 capabilities. From the article: Martin Levy, Huricane Electric’s director of IPv6 strategy, said the new connection strengthened the company’s commitment to the central European market, with its fast growth in demand for IPv6 services. “This new connection will allow Hurricane Electric to continue its aggressive global expansion while delivering next-generation IP access.” The connection expands Hurricane Electric’s network […]
Hurricane Electric’s Owen DeLong recently wrote an article for Data Center Knowledge on IPv6 Adoption in the Data Center. From the article: Most data center operators know that a failure to transition to IPv6 will eventually restrict access to connected resources and degrade communications efficiency. But one lesson of World IPv6 Day (held June 8, 2011) is that IPv6 adoption can bring immediate benefits in the form of improved network topologies and security today. In […]
Hurricane Electric’s Martin Levy was interviewed for a recent article on IPv6 for The Economist. From the article: Two raised to the 128th power is an enormous number: roughly 340 billion billion billion billion—or, as Martin Levy of Hurricane Electric likes to say, “more than four quadrillion addresses for every star in the observable universe”. That will come in handy when the “internet of things” becomes a reality. Already, some 2 billion people have access […]
Hurricane Electric was recently featured in an article in CFO Magazine about the upcoming IPv6 transition. From the article: Unfortunately, a computer with an IPv6 connection will not be able to communicate directly with an IPv4 Website. ISPs are likely to provide gateways allowing such access, but a connection through a gateway probably won’t perform nearly as well as users have come to expect, says John Curran, CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers […]
Hurricane Electric’s Martin Levy was recently interviewed for an article on IPv6 titled “Enabling IPv6, one step at a time”. From the article: Where is the United States in the adoption of IPv6? It depends on which metric you want to use. If you use the number of IP backbones that are enabled for v6, we’re getting there. It’s possible that Europe is slightly ahead of us. There has always been a perception that Japan […]
Hurricane Electric was recently profiled in Network World. From the article: IPv6 is the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol, known as IPv4. IPv6 features vastly more address space, built-in security and enhancements for streaming media and peer-to-peer applications. All carriers and enterprises must run IPv6 when IPv4 addresses are depleted, which is expected in 2012. Hurricane Electric claims to be the No. 1 IPv6 backbone in the world in terms of the number of […]
Hurricane Electric’s Benny Ng was recently interviewed for an article in TechTarget about their use of utility rebates in a recent upgrade. From the article: Where did you get your incentives? We put in a higher-[efficiency] (Eaton) UPS that cost more than the baseline UPS [uninterruptible power supply]. We’ll be getting a sizeable incentive on this. We did a skylight project. We had a bunch of skylights on the roof that we ripped out […]
Hurricane Electric’s new iPhone app that shows a countdown to when all the IPv4 numbers will be depleted was recently featured in CIO Magazine. From the Article: here are a limited number of addresses left for Internet Protocol, version 4, the system that has powered the Internet since before the Web. After they have all been handed out, service providers and enterprises will have to make their systems work with the next version, IPv6, […]
Hurricane Electric’s new iPhone app that shows a countdown to when all the IPv4 numbers will be depleted was recently featured at The Web Host Industry Review. From the Article: In its latest efforts to educate the public about Internet Protocol version 4 address space depletion, IPv6-native Internet backbone and colocation provider Hurricane Electric (www.he.net) has announced the availability of its free IPv4 countdown App for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The majority of today’s Internet […]
