Post Tagged with: "IPv6"

Hurricane Electric featured in CFO Magazine Article about IPv6 transition

Hurricane Electric featured in CFO Magazine Article about IPv6 transition

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 […]

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Hurricane Electric’s Martin Levy interviewed by GCN about IPv6

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 […]

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Hurricane Electric profiled in Network World

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 […]

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Hurricane Electric’s Benny Ng interviewed for utility rebate piece in TechTarget.com

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 […]

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Hurricane Electric’s iPhone app for IPv4 countdown featured in CIO Magazine

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, […]

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Hurricane Electric’s iPhone app for IPv4 countdown featured in The Web Host Industry Review

Hurricane Electric’s iPhone app for IPv4 countdown featured in The Web Host Industry Review

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 […]

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